🗣️ “We have quite a nebulous definition of neutrality.” Kenneth McDonagh questions how central the Triple Lock really is to Irish neutrality. 📺 Catch up on the full episode on Virgin Media PLAY and highlights on YouTube. #TonightVMTV

ICYMI: #TonightVMTV 🚨 Triple lock reform: Is Ireland’s neutrality under threat, and should a referendum be called? 🚨 Europe’s angry autumn: What’s driving a wave of protests and social unrest? 🚨 Brian Stack: The Taoiseach issues a State apology. 👇 ow.ly/kgr650ZZV5U

Ireland’s 'Triple Lock': What Does Scrapping It Mean For Neutrality? 📺 Watch the full #TonightVMTV discussion. youtu.be/_69qAD2U6LY?si=Ah1t…

🗣️ “Particularly generational inequality with housing. If it isn’t addressed here, you’re talking about the fracturing of the social contract,” @Mickcliff on the potential for social unrest in Ireland amid protests in Spain and France. #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “For young people looking at their futures, I don’t think they see a future. I think they feel really hopeless,” Sen. Patricia Stephenson on the causes of social unrest and protests among young people across Europe. #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “It’s the breakdown of liberal democracy... to the effect that it is not working for a critical mass of the people in the way that it has done,” @Mickcliff on the social and political unrest in Europe. #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “We have quite a nebulous definition of neutrality,” Kenneth McDonagh on Irish neutrality, how central the triple lock is to it, and how our neutrality will evolve. #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “Do we want our Defence Forces involved in non-human rights-compliant operations?” says Patricia Stephenson, Social Democrats Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs. #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “The Dáil today [was] little short of hysterical,” @Mickcliff on the Dáil debate surrounding the removal of the triple lock. #TonightVMTV

📺 On #TonightVMTV 🚨 Triple lock: what does neutrality mean today, and should there be a referendum? 🚨 Storm Austen nears as 6 counties brace for flooding. 🚨 Taoiseach’s State apology to the family of prison officer Brian Stack. Tonight’s panel ⬇️

🗣️ “People will find this difficult to accept - we’re going to have to have a staged retreat." 🗣️ "Some homes... will have to be bought out by the State,” @think_or_swim on the extreme measures Ireland may need to cope with more frequent flooding in the future. #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “This needs to be at the top of our consideration here, just how traumatic these flooding events are,” @think_or_swim on the new Virgin Media News documentary 'Ireland Under Water', which looks at the growing threat of flooding in the country. #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “We did withdraw a UN mission in the Middle East. We didn’t do it because of Vladimir Putin or Donald Trump - we did it at the behest of Micheál Martin,” @mattcarthy | #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “It comes back to a broader point about Sinn Féin. They’re trying to conflate this issue about the triple lock with wider neutrality,” says @padraigosull #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “I think it’s telling Mary Lou [McDonald] went back to 2013, while Micheál [Martin] wanted to go back several decades,” @mattcarthy on heated Dáil exchanges over the triple lock, after the Taoiseach said he wouldn’t take “lectures” from a party that “once supported Nazism”.

🗣️ “Every new case...was a rape case. So, of course, 100% of those that weren’t dealt with were rape cases,” @mattcarthy on the Minister for Justice telling the Oireachtas committee that solicitors deliberately targeted rape cases in their protest. #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “I was in the Children’s Court today. There were 16 cases and 13 young people not represented,” @MaryCarolanIT on the impact of the solicitors’ dispute on young and vulnerable people. #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “The Minister for Justice has forced us to take extreme measures,” @michaelfinucane on the solicitors’ dispute over a new payment scheme for criminal legal aid. #TonightVMTV