‘We will not accept any agreement that is adopted without us’: Ukraine resolute as US and Russia seek to end war without its say
European leaders to hold an emergency summit on Ukraine on Monday in Paris
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato)
Who will stand up to Trump at High Noon?
Trump’s glowering mugshot even hangs outside the Oval, like an Old West 'Wanted: dead or alive' poster
Zelenskiy says peace deal possible only after plan is agreed with US and Europe
US vice-president JD Vance says European leaders ‘running in fear of your own voters’
‘I want to fire missiles into Russian troops’: the young Ukrainians training as fighter pilots in the UK
As the war grinds on, Nato states are collaborating to train Ukrainian recruits to fly western jets. The RAF gets them first
Keir Starmer suggests UK could send peacekeeping troops to Ukraine
Former defence secretary Ben Wallace warns against US-led ‘appeasement’ of Russia
Trump’s call to Putin ‘not a betrayal’ of Ukraine, says US defence secretary
Lasting peace in Ukraine requires European role in talks, leaders say
European nations must be involved in Ukraine peace talks, leaders say after Trump calls with Putin and Zelenskiy
Nato head says any peace deal in Ukraine must be enduring, any talks must include Kyiv
South opposed to joining Nato or Commonwealth to smooth Irish unity
Voters in Republic at odds with those in North who say a united Ireland should belong to both organisations
Southerners and northern nationalists dislike Commonwealth more than Nato
North’s Protestants strongly favour membership of the Europe-North America military alliance in event of Irish unity
Should Ireland revisit its neutrality? Prof Ben Tonra and Dr Raymond Murphy debate
Renewed international focus is coming on Ireland’s attitude to defence as Finland and Sweden join Nato
Ireland’s neutrality under attack: shifting geopolitics bring pressure to change
A policy of neutrality is increasingly being questioned by EU members
A good foreign policy is one that no one notices. Unfortunately that’s not Simon Harris’s style
Harris’s success or failure in his new role will mean success or failure for all of us
Tolerance for Ireland’s neutrality may go down as Finland and Sweden joined Nato, Minister told
Warning contained in departmental briefing prepared for incoming Minister for Defence Simon Harris
Swedish authorities board ship seized over Baltic Sea cable breach
Undersea cable between Latvia and Sweden was damaged early on Sunday in Sweden’s exclusive economic zoneB
Danish prime minister clashes with Trump over Greenland
US president tells Mette Frederiksen he is determined to take over Arctic island
State needs to invest in Navy and Air Corps to beef up our ability to protect vital undersea connections
Security of our vital marine interconnectors must be given high priority
Moscow says it will respond to ‘massive’ Ukrainian strike on targets deep inside Russia
Nato launches Baltic patrol mission after suspected Russian sabotage of undersea cables
President Higgins’s remarks about Nato criticised by former Estonian president
Ireland enjoys ‘privileged’ geographical location and benefits from ‘implicit’ Nato protection, former president of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves says
Moves by Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg set scene for confrontation between EU and US
Meta will now allow ‘insulting language when discussing transgender rights, immigration or homosexuality’, and no longer bans describing women as ‘property’ or ‘household objects’
Hostile actions ‘are real and accelerating’: is Russia already at war with the West?
Europe divided and afraid of ‘escalation’ as Moscow’s unacknowledged attacks become more reckless
Italy’s Meloni sees Trump defending western interests, engaging with Ukraine
Italian prime minister seeks to allay concerns that Trump might break with Washington’s traditional European allies as he pursues a Maga agenda
President criticises Nato’s ‘appalling’ call for increased military spending
Michael D Higgins implores young scientists to commit to welfare of all global citizens and counter war rhetoric
Former Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin: ‘We are seeing conservative, masculine forces rising up’
Marin was speaking at the 2025 Pendulum Summit, held in Dublin’s convention centre on Wednesday
Europe is deluded if it thinks it can ‘manage’ Donald Trump
If this second Trump administration makes good on what has been said, the transatlantic relationship will enter a period of profound crisis and potential collapse
Nato to boost presence in Baltic Sea after suspected sabotage of power cable
Finnish investigators believe seized Russian ship caused outage of Estlink 2 undersea power and internet lines
Volodymyr Zelenskiy tells Ukraine’s diplomats to fight for Nato membership
Putin vows to bring more ‘destruction’ to Ukraine after devastating drone attack on central Russian city of Kazan
The world is no longer multipolar - it is ‘multiplex’
Worldview: Multipolarity is based mainly on nineteenth and early twentieth century European precedents concerning balances of state military and strategic power. A multiplex world allows due place in producing order and disorder for institutions, corporations, extremists and social movements
EU needs to be less ‘polite’ in resisting Russian attempts to sway elections
Worldview: Attacks include sabotage, assassinations, parcel bombs, cyber attacks, electoral interference, social media disinformation campaigns and the testing of military preparedness
Millions in Ukraine without power after another massive Russian attack on energy grid
Kremlin welcomes Donald Trump’s criticism of strikes on Russia using US missiles
Russia talks pointless without security guarantees and defence boost, Ukraine says
Kyiv open to possible deployment of western troops ahead of Nato membership
Antony Blinken says Ukraine needs to get younger people into military to succeed in war against Russia
Western officials believe Kyiv urgently needs more manpower to reverse Russian battlefield gain
Nato focuses on military aid push as Ukraine seeks full membership of the alliance
Twenty more air defence systems needed to protect nation’s power grid, says Kyiv
Irish Defence Forces take part in war games as part of effort to boost EU military capability
Push to improve bloc’s defences in train since Russia invaded Ukraine, boosted by Trump’s remark that US may not come to aid of Nato allies
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