{"id":604913,"date":"2026-08-26T06:56:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T06:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/604913\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T06:56:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T06:56:25","slug":"ireland-should-be-at-the-forefront-of-the-drive-to-save-ukraine-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/604913\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland should be at the forefront of the drive to save Ukraine \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sir, \u2013 What\u2019s happening in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/world\/europe\/ukraine-war\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/world\/europe\/ukraine-war\">Ukraine<\/a> at present is reprehensible. It is obvious from the reports of blocks of flats, bookstores, shopping centres and railway stations being targeted that  Russia is blatantly attacking civilians. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">These deaths and injuries are manifestly not collateral damage. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/volodymyr-zelenskiy\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/volodymyr-zelenskiy\">Volodymyr Zelenskiy<\/a> is correct too when he says that this is an attack on Europe as a whole. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">If his country falls it will only be a short step for Russian president Vladimir Putin to go after other countries that in his delusion he imagines to be part of the Russian empire. Finland and Poland would qualify under that criterion. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">And it is only Europe, the UK and Canada that can mount a defence now. The US is a dead letter for the foreseeable future in this regard. Ireland should be at the forefront of the drive to save Ukraine, particularly as we have the presidency of the Council of the EU \u2013 and even after we relinquish it. \u2013 Yours, etc,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">SEAMUS McKENNA,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Maynooth,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Co Kildare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir, \u2013 What\u2019s happening in Ukraine at present is reprehensible. It is obvious from the reports of blocks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,9688,5936,58419],"class_list":["post-604913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-ukraine-crisis","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-volodymyr-zelenskiy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604913","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=604913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}