Letters to the Editor: Ireland's fight for neutrality has only just begun

The work done by NARGC has major beneficial impacts to other species such as curlew. Picture: Brian Fahy

Seán O’Riordan warns that Being neutral means nothing to despots. Just ask the Belgians. He’s referring to Hitler’s 1940 defeat of Belgium, whose declared neutrality failed to protect it from invasion.

Part of the problem for Belgium is that it had seized Rwanda and Burundi from the German Empire during the First World War. Belgium’s neutrality was therefore somewhat compromised, given its firm intention to fight to keep its African colonies and Germany’s determination to recover them, among its many other war aims.