During Leaders’ Questions last week, Deputy Paul Murphy rose from his seat on the opposition benches with a thin green folder in hand containing printouts of airline waybills.  The waybills, documents from an airline to a freight shipper for the transport of goods, he said, proved that flights filled with “thousands of tons of weaponry have gone through Irish airspace on the way to be used in a genocide in Gaza”. Under national air navigation orders, civil air operators need an exemption from the transport minister to carry munitions of war through Irish sovereign territory. No consent has been sought…

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