President Catherine Connolly has said events in the Middle Eastare “deliberate assaults on international law” and must be called out “without euphemism and without equivocation”. "The violations of international law we are witnessing are shocking and numbing, but we cannot afford inaction,” she said. “They are deliberate assaults on international law, the international laws that have underpinned global peace for eighty years. “Ireland accepts the generally recognised principles of international law as its rule of conduct in its relations with other States. Ms McEntee repeatedly declined to answer whether she believed the US and Israeli attacks on Iran had breached international law.

Source: Irish Examiner March 08, 2026 12:51 UTC