Letters to the Editor: We must be careful over funding loan to Ukraine

On reader writes in to say there is doubt that a large proportion of this will be spent on weapons, and that means that the Irish people will be indirectly responsible for any injury or deaths that occur to military or civilians by those weapons

A residential building was damaged by a Russian strike on a residential neighborhood in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday, October 10. Picture: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP

In your opinion section of Friday’s Irish Examiner, in relation to the so-called “reparations”, you say, “Taoiseach Micheál Martin said there had to be an economic cost to such flagrant violations of international law, and that the funds would help Ukraine...”

You also quote him as saying: “We are militarily neutral; we’re not members of Nato; we’re not members of any military alliance, but countries like Ukraine have a right to defend themselves. I don’t believe there are implications for Irish neutrality.”