There are two unfolding events of international importance which have a direct bearing on the politics of Ireland particularly as the world tentatively emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic. Firstly, the election of the Twenty-Six County state to a two-year sitting on the United Nations Security Council brings into sharp focus that State’s role in the affairs of International Law particularly relating to National Sovereignty, occupation and post-colonial practices. Secondly, the decision by Israel to strategically ‘delay’ its annexation of sovereign Palestinian territory, with the full complicity of the US Administration, calls into question the very concept of International Law and the credibility of the United Nations itself. The recent dismissal from the Programme of Government of The Control of Economic Activities (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 bodes ill for any hope that Dublin’s presence on that Council will be marked by a robus...