Last month, an “administrative error” in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade made the front page of The Irish Times.  The paper of record revealed the department’s failure to report close to 250 US military overflights through Irish airspace since the summer of 2025.  The news hook was that this included a major surge in flights (as well as in troopds passing through Shannon Airport, as a later article showed) following the first US and Israeli attacks on Iran.  Under a seven-decade-old agreement, US military aircraft can fly over Ireland without prior permission if no weapons are aboard or…

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