Ireland would break the back of the EU accession negotiations for Montenegro during its presidency of the EU.

It can't all be boiled down to one football game.

We desperately need perspective on this.

Ireland has taken a strong principled stance on Israel's actions, and to focus the debate on a game does not do justice to the enormity or complexity of the issue.

Thousands of workers in Ireland would be affected by a full Israeli boycott.

We need to be realistic and need to be honest with people in respect of what we can achieve via this legislation.

It is great to be virtuous, but for the workers’ representative, he lacks all virtuosity when it comes to protecting Irish workers.

Ireland cannot be self-defeating in how it approaches the fixtures.

The whole principle of sanctions is we don't damage ourselves more than Russia, or that they don't become self-defeating, and it would appear to me now, Aughinish falls into that category.

We don't want to damage ourselves unnecessarily.

Ireland should not have a statutory bar on the consideration of nuclear energy.

We are concerned about any reports that the products from Aughinish - the raw material from there - would be used to assist Russia in waging its brutal war against Ukraine.