Irish Examiner view: Staying on the side of truth

Russia’s ambassador to Ireland Yuri Filatov says the Irish public is hostile to 'Russia and everything Russian'

Russian Ambassador to Ireland Yuri Filatov said that the prospect of war was “insane” — just before the tanks rolled forward. Picture: Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews.ie

According to Russia’s ambassador to Ireland, Yuri Filatov, the Irish media has portrayed an “absolutely tendentious picture” of the Ukraine invasion. 

He said this a month ago and he had no reason to change his mind this weekend when he attended the consecration of festive Easter food at Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, Dublin’s only Russian Orthodox church, in Harold’s Cross.