Letters to the Editor: Retention of triple lock should be a general election issue

Emeritus Professor John Maguire writes that Ireland must resist attempts to unpick the triple lock which requires UN authority for more than 12 Irish troops to deploy abroad

President Michael D Higgins, Taoiseach Simon Harris, and Tánaiste Micheál Martin at the UN in New York in September. John Maguire writes that Ireland 'must preserve the simple expression of our obligation to obey, and where necessary work to improve, genuine international law'. Picture: Maxwell’s

One issue which might be obscured by election fever is the coalition parties’ shared intention to unpick the “triple lock”, which requires UN authority for more than 12 Irish troops to deploy abroad.

An issue surely for Dáil Éireann, which appointed them in 2020 on a programme reaffirming the triple lock — but more fundamentally for all of us as citizens.