Wilful ignorance is not an acceptable dodge when it comes to Aughinish Alumina |
An eight-year-old boy lay dead in the city of Dnipro after Russia rained more than 700 drones and missiles on Ukraine in the early hours of Tuesday.
In Ukrainian cities, more children were killed, injured, orphaned, traumatised and left homeless. Nearly two dozen people died and more than 100 others were injured in the aerial assault a Kyiv resident likened to “the apocalypse”.
Through it all, Ireland slept the untroubled sleep of a neutral country.
It cannot be said with certitude that the killing machinery Russia used on Tuesday contained aluminium that had been converted from alumina imported from Ireland. But neither can it be said for certain that it was not.
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It is 11 weeks since The Irish Times revealed that alumina exported to Russia from Aughinish Alumina, Co Limerick, was being turned into aluminium in smelters there. The aluminium is then sold to a Moscow-based trading company which, in turn, supplies weapons manufacturers equipping the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine.
[ From the Shannon to Siberia: How alumina from a Limerick refinery enters Russia’s weapons supply chain ]
Here, a Government spokesman said it was taking “very seriously” the newspaper’s joint report with the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, a Dutch-headquartered network of 120 journalists and 70 media outlets on six continents. It was announced that the Department........