Irish neutrality sure is profitable!

Sanctimonious posturing and parochial dart throwing are exposed as shamelessly hypocritical in the below Irish Examiner articles:

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Dempsey's book should be interesting...

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Examiner "Much of this went to countries with a track record of systematic abuse of human rights and yet the systems were not in place to enable us to say definitively that exports from Ireland are not contributing to conflicts around the world" but how are we so sure thet they have contributed ? what countries and when? totally ambiguous claim i expect from this rag. Can anyone here name countries around the world that are unaffected by the paranoid anti government lackies who believe every piece of negative information about the government is true and that anything positive is just spin.

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Countries have a right to defend themselves. We can not be responsible for what other countries and doing. The Irish examiner is a down market left wing rag.

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You forgot the word hippie TB. Don't forget that word or you won't complete your favourite phrase.

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OK Trueburp/rainyday – the Irish examiner is a downmarket left wing rag for hippies and labour party members/supporters. Are you happy now?

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