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“Revealed: how the US taps into our secrets,” headlines the Irish Independent, in the first of a series of extracts from the “Ireland Cables” - a haul of over 1,900 classified documents obtained from whistleblowing organisation WikiLeaks. “Former Taoisigh [i.e. Prime Ministers], senior cabinet members, diplomats, drug traffickers, alleged Muslim terrorists, businessman, oil companies, Vatican insiders and kidnapped aid workers all feature in the Ireland Cache,” the Dublin daily writes. The cables demonstrate that the US is privy to Irish state secrets from the highest levels of the state itself. They reveal that the US is “often being briefed on matters of huge public interest prior to the Opposition or the Irish people.” For the Irish Independent, the revelations, “coming just a week after the outpouring of pro-US sentiment that accompanied Barack Obama’s on his first visit to this country, […] give us an unprecedented insight into the true nature of our relationship with the US […] But this does not appear to be a relationship of equals.”
A conversation with investigative reporters Stefano Valentino and Giorgio Michalopoulos, who have dissected the dark underbelly of green finance for Voxeurop and won several awards for their work.
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