Irish Examiner View: 'Do svidaniya' to Russian diplomats

Russia had 31 registered diplomats in Ireland. Neither we, nor they, require that many

Russian ambassador to Ireland Yuri Filatov: Just days before the tanks rolled into Ukraine, he described the prospect of war as 'insane'. Picture: Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews.ie

The surprise is not that the Government decided to expel four Russian diplomats from Dublin — a rare move in Ireland, which retained its Nazi Germany ambassador throughout the duration of the Second World War. 

The surprise is that it took so long.