Shannon makes us complicit in Trump and Israel's illegal war

The Government would do well to listen to President Catherine Connolly's message on peace in this unstable time — our neutrality is severely endangered

The Government has continued to allow US military use of Shannon Airport, which has become a de facto forward operating base for US military operations in recent decades.

Over two weeks have passed since the illegal US-Israeli assault on Iran, which has ignited a regional war with global ramifications.

Since then, Taoiseach Micheál Martin and foreign affairs minister Helen McEntee, as well as various Government TDs, have refused to categorically condemn these actions, or to categorise them as illegal.