Government issues thinly-veiled rebuke to President Catherine Connolly on Middle East warThe Government has issued a thinly-veiled rebuke to President Catherine Connolly on the Middle East war. It came after Ms Connolly deplored “deliberate assaults on international law,” which she said had underpinned world peace and security for eighty years. President Connolly said “we must name them (deliberate assaults) as such, without euphemism and without equivocation". "What we have witnessed in recent days in the Middle East, and beyond, are not political disputes. "They are deliberate assaults on international law, the international laws that have underpinned global peace for 80 years.

Source: Irish Independent March 09, 2026 20:05 UTC