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\n Archbishop Dermot Farrell of the Dublin Archdiocese speaks at a Mass at St. Mary\u2019s in Dublin on Nov. 14, 2025. Farrell spoke at a Mass on Jan. 1, 2026, the World Day of Peace, calling on politicians to promote peace. | Credit: John McElroy\/Dublin Archdiocese<\/span>\n<\/div>\n

Jan 2, 2026 \/ 12:58 pm (CNA).<\/p>\n

In his New Year\u2019s Day homily at Newtownpark Avenue Church in Dublin, Archbishop Dermot Farrell called upon Ireland\u2019s politicians to show leadership in promoting peace and in how they communicate and articulate it.<\/p>\n

The archbishop was speaking at a Mass for the World Day of Peace <\/a>where apostolic nuncio Archbishop Luis Mariano Montemayor and Archbishop Emeritus Diarmuid Martin were among the concelebrants.<\/p>\n

His appeal comes at a time when Ireland\u2019s traditional neutrality has come under scrutiny and as the country prepares to take over the EU presidency in the second half of 2026, where defense will be high on the agenda. The presidency of the Council of the European Union<\/a> is a role that rotates among the EU member states every six months. Fifty European leaders are due to visit Ireland during its presidency.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, leaders are important; indeed, good leadership is vital. However, we need to take to heart that good leaders bring people with them,\u201d Farrell said.<\/p>\n

Speaking before a congregation that included government ministers and representatives of the Irish Defence Forces, Farrell quoted the late Nobel Prize winner John Hume.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany here this morning will remember the conviction and witness of the late John Hume. For John Hume, \u2018political leadership [was] like being a teacher. It\u2019s about changing the language of others,\u2019 he said. \u2018I say it and go on saying it until I hear the man in the pub saying my words back to me.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The archbishop continued: \u201cIreland has a proud record in international work for peace. Now, in our days, there is a need and opportunity for the Irish state to articulate how this tradition and the values which underpin it will be continued in a rapidly changing international situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Farrell said there is a need as well as an opportunity for Ireland to articulate how this peace tradition and the values that underpin it can continue today.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not enough to invest in defense capacity or to point to how the circumstances of our traditional military neutrality have changed,\u201d he said. \u201cIreland\u2019s commitment to promoting a sustainable peace needs a new articulation. We are not in an either-or situation. It is not them or us. When we invest in peace everybody wins.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin and T\u00e1naiste Simon Harris have made repeated statements on Ireland\u2019s neutrality, but that has not prevented them from making the state\u2019s views known on international conflicts.<\/p>\n

On Ukraine and Gaza, for example, Ireland has taken a decisive political stance, which has aroused the ire of the Russian and Israeli governments.<\/p>\n

Writing in the London\u2019s Daily Telegraph, Barry O\u2019Halloran <\/a>voiced an opinion shared by some in the U.K. and Europe that Ireland needs to invest to defend itself irrespective of its neutrality: \u201cIrish neutrality is a legacy of \u00c9amon de Valera\u2019s considerable antipathy to all things British and has been the lodestar of Irish foreign policy since the state was founded.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Irish state relies on the British Royal Navy to protect Irish coastal waters, and the country\u2019s geographical position at the periphery of Europe makes it strategically of interest to Russia.<\/p>\n

Russian submarines have been mapping the transatlantic cables in Irish waters, which carry about 75% of the data traveling between Europe and the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter decades of underfunding, the Irish Defence Forces have no idea what is going on in the seas around Ireland. The navy doesn\u2019t have the ships, the personnel, or even the electronic equipment to monitor hostile activity in our waters,\u201d Stephen Collins wrote in the Irish Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Martin has acknowledged concerns about economic security in terms of gas connectors and subsea cables and dismissed a statement by Maria Zakharova, a spokesperson for Russia\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, that the European Union and Ukraine were attempting to interfere with Ireland\u2019s neutral status.<\/p>\n

In his homily on New Year\u2019s Day, Farrell was unequivocal that governments clearly have a critical role to play in shaping the course of international events and the onerous responsibility of pursuing the path of peace even in the face of provocation.<\/p>\n

\u201cEnduring peace is born of compassion and respect; it is born of patience, of attention to the other, of the conviction that the one who presents themselves as different, as other, is actually like oneself, is a true sister or brother of mine. This is what our faith means when we say that peace is born of hope.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Archbishop Dermot Farrell of the Dublin Archdiocese speaks at a Mass at St. Mary\u2019s in Dublin on Nov. 14, 2025. Farrell spoke at a Mass on Jan. 1, 2026, the World Day of Peace, calling on politicians to promote peace. | Credit: John McElroy\/Dublin Archdiocese Jan 2, 2026 \/ 12:58 pm (CNA). In his New Year\u2019s Day homily at Newtownpark Avenue Church in Dublin, Archbishop Dermot Farrell called upon Ireland\u2019s politicians to show leadership in promoting peace and in how they communicate and articulate it. The archbishop was speaking at a Mass for the World Day of Peace where apostolic nuncio Archbishop Luis Mariano Montemayor and Archbishop Emeritus Diarmuid Martin [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":79226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-73685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-news"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Dublin-archbishop-challenges-politicians-to-show-leadership-in-promoting-peace.jpg?fit=3200%2C2133&quality=80&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":69976,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/learn\/joy-in-dublin-as-papal-designation-gives-city-first-catholic-cathedral-since-reformation\/","url_meta":{"origin":73685,"position":0},"title":"Joy in Dublin as papal designation gives city first Catholic cathedral since Reformation","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"11\u6708 25, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Archbishop Dermot Farrell of the Dublin Archdiocese holds up the decree on Nov. 14, 2025, that Pope Leo XIV sent him granting his request that St. Mary\u2019s Pro Cathedral of the Archdiocese of Dublin be designated as the cathedral Church of the archdiocese. \/ Credit: John McElroy\/Dublin Archdiocese Dublin, Ireland,\u2026","rel":"","context":"Christian News","block_context":{"text":"Christian News","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/learn\/category\/christian-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Joy in Dublin as papal designation gives city first Catholic cathedral since Reformation","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Joy-in-Dublin-as-papal-designation-gives-city-first-Catholic-cathedral-since-Reformation.webp?fit=800%2C525&quality=75&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Joy-in-Dublin-as-papal-designation-gives-city-first-Catholic-cathedral-since-Reformation.webp?fit=800%2C525&quality=75&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Joy-in-Dublin-as-papal-designation-gives-city-first-Catholic-cathedral-since-Reformation.webp?fit=800%2C525&quality=75&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Joy-in-Dublin-as-papal-designation-gives-city-first-Catholic-cathedral-since-Reformation.webp?fit=800%2C525&quality=75&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":68874,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/learn\/10-bishops-stand-for-election-for-president-of-u-s-conference-of-catholic-bishops\/","url_meta":{"origin":73685,"position":1},"title":"10 bishops stand for election for president of U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"11\u6708 17, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The U.S. bishops gather in Baltimore on Nov. 12, 2024, for their plenary assembly. \/ Credit: Madalaine Elhabbal\/CNA Washington, D.C. 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