Gerard Craughwell claims any arrangement allowing RAF interception in Irish airspace is unlawful and unconstitutional unless approved by Dáil and put to a referendumThe case concerns an alleged agreement between Ireland and Britain allowing the RAF to 'intercept' any aircraft that poses a threat in Irish airspace.
The case concerns an alleged agreement between Ireland and Britain allowing the RAF to “intercept” any aircraft that poses a threat in Irish airspace.The Corrs’ manager’s secluded south Dublin home on an acre for €4.25mImpossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century – A place like no other Further questions about this from Mr Craughwell led to responses that this concerned national security and the Government would “not confirm nor deny the existence of any alleged agreement or arrangement”.
Opening the State’s arguments, Ms Donnelly said the pleaded case concerned highly sensitive elements of the Government’s exercise of its constitutionally conferred powers. However, in this case, all there was was a “bare assertion of an agreement” when there is a very high threshold for bringing such a case.