“My eyes see a country a little too fond of selling aluminium to Russia.” That was the not-so-veiled remark regarding Aughinish Alumina by Dutch MEP Reinier van Lanschot during the European Parliament’s debate about Ireland’s EU presidency on Tuesday. It is the latest chapter in a saga of mounting pressure on Ireland to take action against the Russian-owned alumina plant in Limerick that has been accused of shipping raw materials to Russia, where it potentially enters military supply chains. A day after Taoiseach Micheál Martin’s speech introducing the Irish presidency of the EU in Strasbourg, MEPs adopted a European Commission…

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