{"id":291935,"date":"2026-02-11T07:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T07:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/291935\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T07:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T07:00:10","slug":"ireland-risks-reputational-damage-over-us-deportation-flights-into-shannon-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/291935\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland risks reputational damage over US deportation flights into Shannon \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sir, &#8211; As an ethicist and a former law-enforcement officer from the United States, I urge Irish politicians to change the Department of Transport\u2019s present policy of not requiring permission by private aircraft to refuel at Shannon Airport (\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/2026\/02\/09\/shannon-airport-used-for-refuelling-ice-deportation-flights-10-times-in-past-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/2026\/02\/09\/shannon-airport-used-for-refuelling-ice-deportation-flights-10-times-in-past-year\/\">Shannon Airport used for refuelling Ice deportation flights 10 times in past year<\/a>,\u201d February 9th). I make this point in even stronger terms when the aircraft are under contract by the US government or any other government conducting unjust, if not unlawful, activities. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">I agree with Labour Party spokesman Duncan Smith that Ireland ought not \u201cbe complicit\u201d in the indiscriminate, mass deportations by the Trump administration and its extremely undertrained and excessively forceful immigration enforcement agents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">TOBIAS WINRIGHT, <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Professor of Moral Theology,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">St Patrick\u2019s College, <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Maynooth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir, &#8211; As an ethicist and a former law-enforcement officer from the United States, I urge Irish politicians&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,39639,43],"class_list":["post-291935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-letter-of-the-day","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}