Professor Ray Murphy

NUI Galway

Prof. Ray Murphy is a professor at the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the School of Law at NUI Galway

While none of the current nuclear powers are willing to ratify it, the UN treaty is a major achievement on the road to disarmament

Ireland is well placed on the UN Security Council to play the role of honest broker over this most contentious issue

Aside from national observers and oversight bodies, the US has also invited an international body to observe the upcoming election

The Irish Government will learn tomorrow if the bid for a seat on the UN Security Council has been successful

$Tupolev TU-95 bombers fly over Moscow's Red Square during a Victory Day military parade in May 2016. Photo: Marina Lystseva\TASS via Getty Images$

There have been reports of recent incursions of Russian bombers like the Tupolev TU-95 in airspace controlled by Ireland.

The current US administration has turned decades of US policy on Israel and Palestine on its head

While members of the Irish special forces are more than able for any role they may be assigned, the conflict in Mali is volatile and ...

Escalating tensions between the two countries could have huge ramifications for the Middle East

NATO has moved far from a core mission "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in and the Germans down."

As a new batch of Irish troops prepare for deployment, the possibility of military action by Israel in the Golan remains a serious threat

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