Ireland
A combined view of Ireland's UN General Assembly speeches, treaty commitments, and voting record.
The narrative paragraphs below are AI-generated syntheses of the data shown — the tables and figures themselves come directly from the underlying records, not from the AI.
Compare with another country →Speech history
Ireland's General Assembly rhetoric has remained consistently and strongly multilateralist across nearly two decades, with scores ranging from 74 to 94, and institutional advocacy—particularly for UN reform—intensifying markedly from 2016 onward. Emotional intensity and self-accountability have fluctuated notably, with particularly passionate rhetoric in 2012, 2018, and 2025, while concrete policy commitments have grown more pronounced and detailed since 2014, especially around peacekeeping and humanitarian financing. The country has grounded its appeals in Ireland's own historical contributions and specific national pledges, creating a rhetorical pattern that pairs universal multilateral principles with self-directed accountability.
| Session | Multilateralism | Emotional intensity | Concreteness | Self-accountability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | High | High | High | High |
| 2007 | Very High | High | High | High |
| 2008 | Very High | Medium | High | High |
| 2009 | Very High | High | Medium | Medium |
| 2010 | Very High | Medium | High | Medium |
| 2012 | High | High | High | High |
| 2013 | Very High | High | High | Medium |
| 2014 | Very High | High | High | High |
| 2015 | Very High | Medium | High | High |
| 2016 | Very High | Medium | High | High |
| 2017 | Very High | Medium | High | High |
| 2018 | Very High | High | High | High |
| 2021 | Very High | High | High | High |
| 2022 | Very High | High | High | High |
| 2023 | Very High | High | High | High |
| 2024 | Very High | High | Medium | Medium |
| 2025 | Very High | Very High | High | Medium |
Treaty status
Full treaty record →Ireland maintains comprehensive ratification across all tracked treaty themes, with particular strength in environmental commitments (15 ratifications spanning climate, biodiversity, hazardous waste, and ozone protection) and human rights instruments (5 core conventions). The country has also ratified all key arms control treaties, including the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and all major international justice and trade governance instruments, demonstrating consistent alignment with multilateral legal frameworks across nearly every major thematic area.
Arms control & security
- Arms Trade TreatyRatified
- Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban TreatyRatified
- Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their DestructionRatified
- Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear WeaponsRatified
Environment & climate
- Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their DisposalRatified
- Convention on Biological DiversityRatified
- Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone LayerRatified
- Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeRatified
- Minamata Convention on MercuryRatified
- Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone LayerRatified
- Paris AgreementRatified
- Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International TradeRatified
- Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic PollutantsRatified
- United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in AfricaRatified
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeRatified
Human rights
- Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or PunishmentRatified
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against WomenRatified
- Convention on the Rights of Persons with DisabilitiesRatified
- Convention on the Rights of the ChildRatified
- International Covenant on Civil and Political RightsRatified
International justice
- Rome Statute of the International Criminal CourtRatified
Trade & governance
- United Nations Convention against CorruptionRatified
- United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized CrimeRatified
- United Nations Convention on the Law of the SeaRatified
Voting record
Full voting record →Ireland's voting record reflects overwhelming consensus alignment, with approximately 66% affirmative votes and only 8% dissenting across 5,544 General Assembly votes since the 1970s. Its rare dissents—including votes against resolutions on South African apartheid (1976), trade negotiations (1979), state non-interference (1979), Palestine refugee aid (1982), and sovereign debt restructuring (2014)—suggest occasional deviations driven by specific national or economic interests rather than systematic ideological opposition, though these represent a vanishingly small fraction of its overall voting behavior.
Notable dissents from consensus
Towards the establishment of a multilateral legal framework for sovereign debt restructuring processes : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2014-09-09 · voted N · 92% voted yes
Multilateral trade negotiations : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1979-01-29 · voted N · 91% voted yes
Situation in South Africa : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1976-11-09 · voted N · 91% voted yes
Non-interference in the internal affairs of States : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1979-12-14 · voted N · 91% voted yes
Resumption of the ration distribution to Palestine refugees : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1982-12-16 · voted N · 90% voted yes
Human development
Full HDI record →Human Development Index: 0.949 (Very High), ranked #11 globally in 2023.
Combines life expectancy, education, and income into one comparable score, 0 to 1. Source: UNDP Human Development Report 2025 — deterministic figures, not AI-generated.
1990–2023