Letters to the editor: Is Ireland’s neutrality really just an illusion?
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SUBSCRIBESeán O’Riordan, in his excellent appraisal of Ireland’s at-risk neutrality, mentions that “the British media has been hard at work” in chastising Ireland as a “freeloader”.
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