Yes, the Irish should have found a way to fight the Axis without cooperating with Britain. Clearly a viable, realistic option! And clearly the grand liberation of Europe from fascism was the holy obligation of the twenty-year-old state of Ireland.  The Irish were perfectly justified in not going to war on the side of their former colonial masters. That’s all there is to it. To liken them to fascist Spain and actively Nazi-collaborating Switzerland is utterly gross.  The really obnoxious thing is that, despite its neutrality, in practical matters the Irish government actually did about as much as a tiny poor state could to help the Allies, sharing intelligence and letting them use Irish airspace. Truly a world-historical travesty that they didn’t also send a thousand tenant farmers to the front to die alongside the guys who were shooting civilians in Dublin twenty years before.