Exact what air defense assets does the Republic of Ireland have?
Could they even enforce such a ban?
Russian planes routinely over fly the U.S. and vice versa. For instance, a polar route from New York to Singapore pretty much has to overfly Russia.
Varadkar is an “EU toady” as the British pro-Brexit politicians pointed out. This is another call by him to accelerate development of that EU military that he basically forced Ireland to via the “permanent structured cooperation” (PESCO) agreement.