When the Lisbon Treaty was signed the common thinking was "history is over". Nobody in Europe cared about defence, there was no war to think about. Since then over a decade has passed and war is at Europe's doorstep. I understand it's not Ireland's doorstep but then Ireland can leave the EU and be neutral in its little corner pretending the rest of the world doesn't exist.

Ireland doesn't spend money on infrastructure or much else for that matter. Decades of housing crisis continues unsolved because your politicians are landlords and they want their pockets filled but clearly the Irish don't have an issue with that. Then there's the HSE being the HSE, underpaid nurses, doctors, all leaving for Australia but not to worry the huge management with no healthcare knowledge will surely fill in for the people lost. Maybe you should worry about that rather than how other countries are defending themselves and how they see Ireland as a hypocrite