'Hands off Ireland's neutrality': Government warned changes to triple-lock system will be fought

Senators Alice Mary Higgins and Frances Black, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald, Social Democrats TD Sinéad Gibney, Galway West TD Catherine Connolly and People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy are among those opposing proposed changes to the triple-lock system. Photograph: Grà¡inne Nà­ Aodha/PA Wire Opposition politicians have pledged to "fight like hell" against Government efforts to change the system for deploying Irish troops abroad. Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald and others on Saturday criticised plans to alter the system as a move that would erode the State's "cherished" neutrality. The existing triple-lock system requires the approval of the…