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Cillian Sherlock

Ireland ‘willing to help’ on Ukraine peacekeeping plan

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer spoke to Taoiseach Micheal Martin (Peter Byrne/PA) - (PA Wire)

Ireland will participate in a peacekeeping operation in Ukraine if there is a deal to end the war, the Irish premier said, but the country will not form part of a “deterrent force”.

Micheal Martin said he told UK Prime Minister that Ireland is willing to “do whatever we possibly can to help”, after Sir Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron set an ambition to build a “coalition of the willing” to defend a peace deal.

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