Keep Ireland Neutral

Neutrality Roadshow - Roscommon
2025-11-26 18:00 - 20:00 UTC
The Neutrality Roadshow Comes to Roscommon!
A public meeting on the future of Irish neutrality will take place in Gleesons Cafe, Market Square, Roscommon Town, F42 WA22 on the 26th November 2025 at 6pm as part of The Neutrality Roadshow.
The event will feature Niamh Ní Bhriain and Fionn Wallace who will speak about the importance of preserving Ireland’s neutrality and the Triple Lock system — which requires UN, Government, and Dáil approval before Irish troops can be sent overseas.
Organisers from Neutrality Now! say it’s vital for communities to engage in this national conversation as Ireland’s independent foreign policy faces new pressures.
All are welcome to attend and take part in an open discussion on Ireland’s role in promoting peace and diplomacy.
Keep Ireland Neutral – Keep the Triple Lock!

GALWAY DEMONSTRATION for NEUTRALITY/ TRIPLE LOCK/ PALESTINE OTB
2025-12-08 14:30 - 15:30 | outside Galway City Council Offices., City Hall, Galway City Council Offices, College Road., Galway city, Galway, Ireland
KEEP IRELAND NEUTRAL/ DEFEND the TRIPLE LOCK.
ENACT the OCCUPIED TERRITORIES BILL.
DEMO: outside City Hall, Galway City Council Offices, College Road, Galway.
Hope you can come along to lobby City Councillors to vote for these motions.
(sitting is not compulsory!)

PRESS RELEASE; Friday 12th Dec, International Neutrality Day
2025-12-13 - 2025-12-20
International Day of Neutrality – Ireland Must Reaffirm Its Commitment to Active, Positive Neutrality
On this International Day of Neutrality, Ireland confronts an urgent challenge: our neutrality is being progressively eroded by government decisions favouring increased military alignment, most pressingly, by plans to remove the Triple Lock requirement for a United Nations mandate to deploy Irish troops abroad.
The Triple Lock has served as a key safeguard of Ireland’s neutrality. Article 29 of the Constitution provides only limited protection for Irish neutrality, so removal of the Triple Lock would leave Ireland “neutral in name only,” warns Keep Ireland Neutral, a coalition of peace and neutrality groups across the island.
“The government’s plan to remove the Triple Lock represents a fundamental shift in Ireland’s foreign policy,” said a Keep Ireland Neutral spokesperson. “This move would gravely endanger our neutrality. We see this clearly when the US military uses Shannon airport to transport weapons to conflict zones, showing how bigger powers can pressure Ireland to act against our principles. The Triple Lock is the only safeguard against similar pressure being applied to deploy Irish troops abroad.”
International Day of Neutrality was established by a UN resolution that recognised the importance of UN neutrality and the role that national policies of neutrality can play in strengthening peace and security. As global conflict intensifies, neutrality is not a weakness but a strategic asset for Ireland, protecting our sovereignty and independence. For decades, Irish neutrality has enabled the country to punch above its weight in peacekeeping, mediation, and humanitarian diplomacy.
On this occasion, Keep Ireland Neutral calls on the Irish government to:

Reaffirm Ireland’s commitment to genuine, active neutrality grounded in international law
Protect the Triple Lock and resist troop deployments without a UN mandate
Reject external pressure to align with military alliances and increase military spending, which will have a detrimental effect on public spending for health care, housing, education and social needs

“We urge the Government to restore Ireland’s leadership role in peacekeeping and ensure we remain, in both word and deed, a proud, principled, and actively neutral nation,” the group concluded.
Keep Ireland Neutral is a collective of civil society peace and neutrality groups dedicated to defending and strengthening Irish neutrality as an active, positive principle.
Press contact: Niamh Ní Bhriain | n.nibhriain@tni.org | +31 6 83161768
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GALWAY GRASSROOTS: KEEP THE TRIPLE LOCK
2026-01-12 14:20 - 15:15 | outside Galway City Council Offices., City Hall, Galway City Council Offices, College Road., Galway city, Galway, Ireland
GALWAY GRASSROOTS CAMPAIGN TO KEEP THE TRIPLE LOCK.
Pro-Triple Lock motion to be tabled at Galway City Council meeting on Monday January 12th.
We aim to apply grass-root pressure on the Councillors for this motion to be passed.
Join the lobby of the City Councillors as they arrive for the meeting. Assemble at 2.20pm outside Galway City Council offices, City Hall, Galway.
Urge the Councillors to support the motion. It is critical that we show them the local level of public opposition to the government’s proposal to dismantle the Triple Lock mechanism.
Keep Ireland Neutral. Keep the Triple Lock.

Motion on Protecting Neutrality-Waterford Council
2026-01-15 14:00 - 23:30
Motion on Protecting Irish Neutrality coming before Waterford Councillors this Thursday, 15th Jan 2026 at Waterford City and County Council monthly meeting at 2pm.
The motion was put forward following an important public meeting of The Neutrality Roadshow in Waterford in October 2025 on the threat to Irish neutrality if the government dismantles the Triple Lock. The event, hosted by Neutrality Now, in partnership with the Ireland–Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) South East branch and the Waterford Council of Trade Unions, explored how ending the Triple Lock could allow Irish troops to join EU or NATO-led wars — ending decades of peacekeeping tradition.
A spokesperson for the IPSC South East branch said:
“Ireland’s neutrality has always been about our independence and standing up for fairness, rather than lining up behind big military powers. That same mindset is why so many people here feel solidarity with Palestine — it comes from a belief in human rights, self-determination, opposition to occupation, and protecting ordinary people caught up in conflict. By protecting our neutrality, Ireland keeps the freedom to call out injustice wherever it happens, including in Palestine, without being tied to military or political agendas. In that way, neutrality and solidarity go hand in hand.
“We urge Waterford Councillors to vote with their conscience and to support the motion. We have seen cross party support in other councils, including from Government party Councillors in Fianna Fåil and Fine Gael. Families in Waterford don’t want our Government to send our children to die in wars that don’t concern us – no one wants to have that blood on their hands.”
Motion wording:
This Council expresses its dismay at and opposition to the government’s intention to abolish the Triple Lock, which governs the deployment of Irish Defence Forces personnel overseas.
The Triple Lock has ensured that Ireland’s participation in overseas missions (with more than 12 defence personnel) would always require approval from: 1. the Cabinet 2. Dáil Éireann and 3. that the mission they are being deployed on would have a UN mandate either from the Security Council or the General Assembly.
In 2001, the Irish people rejected the Nice Treaty over concerns that it would drag Ireland into EU military structures that would threaten our neutrality. To get the electorate to approve the EU Treaty, the government with the agreement of the other EU Member States, through a “solemn declaration” introduced the Triple Lock. This Declaration was reiterated following initial rejection of the subsequent Lisbon Treaty.
Therefore, this Council rejects government’s plans to abolish or amend the Triple Lock, considering the proposal signifies a breach of trust with the Irish electorate and a serious diminution of Irish neutrality.
