The Neutrality Roadshow is travelling around Ireland hosting conversations with local communities about the importance of preserving Irish neutrality in the face of growing pressure to formally align Ireland militarily with the EU and NATO. Irish neutrality is already being hollowed out - the US military is allowed to use Shannon airport, there are new ‘defense’ partnerships with the French navy and others, and most significant of all, the Dublin government is pushing legislative change to allow Irish troop deployments on EU or NATO-led missions.

There is also a real push to remilitarise the north to support NATO activities, citing Irish security 'freeloading', the possibility of a united Ireland hostile to NATO interests, and using cold war rhetoric to talk up the threat of Russia, China and Iran.