The forum will take place across four days in June at three locations in Galway, Cork and Dublin. Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence Micheal Martin announced plans for a “consultative forum on international security policy”. He said that cybersecurity, hybrid threats, critical infrastructure threats and the triple lock mechanism on Ireland’s neutrality will all be “open for debate”. “There is a very clear need for an open, informed, respectful and evidence-based discussion on our foreign and our security policy,” he said on Wednesday. Louise Richardson, president of the Carnegie Corporation and former vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford, was announced as the chairwoman of the forum.

Source: The Herald April 05, 2023 14:12 UTC