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Ireland

Low risk1.0% annual probabilitystable trend
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Ireland facts

Population

5.48M

GDP

$721.7B

Currency

EUR

Capital

Dublin

Land area

70.27K km²

Official languages

English, Irish

Population and GDP: World Bank. Country facts: bundled reference data.

Risk assessment

Silfio assessment of Ireland

NEWS

Conflict probability

1%

Model base probability

0.7%

Risk category

Low

Strategic reasoning

  • No prediction market data exists for armed conflict onset in Ireland, so adjustment relies solely on news signals.
  • Current news indicates a significant escalation in US-Iran conflict, with multiple strikes, casualties, and regional tensions rising, including threats of wider conflict involving Iran’s allies.
  • Although this conflict is geographically distant from Ireland, the heightened global geopolitical tensions and energy market disruptions (including involvement of Russian-controlled assets in Ireland) increase the risk of spillover effects or targeted attacks on strategic infrastructure in allied countries, including Ireland.
  • Ireland’s political and economic ties to Western powers and presence of Russian-controlled facilities (Aughinish Alumina plant) under scrutiny could elevate risk of proxy or asymmetric attacks, constituting a new armed conflict onset on Irish soil.

Critical indicators

  • US-Iran war escalation with multiple airstrikes and casualties in July 2026
  • Rising geopolitical risk premium in global energy markets and scrutiny of Russian-controlled Aughinish Alumina plant in Ireland

Related coverage

Latest articles about Ireland

Updated July 20, 2026

cnn.com · 3 days ago

Trump is edging towards another American ‘forever war’ in Iran | CNN

It is the ultimate sanction. But somehow for President Donald Trump – who once sought a Nobel Peace Prize for ending wars – military force has become a casual measure, a kind of background effect used to cajole Iran into diplomacy.

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us.cnn.com · 3 days ago

In casually threatening US military might against Iran, Trump may have got his own forever war | CNN

It is the ultimate sanction. But somehow for President Trump – who once sought a Nobel Peace Prize for ending wars – military force has become a casual measure, a kind of background effect used to cajole Iran into diplomacy.

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aljazeera.com · 1 day ago

Iran suggests MoU ‘suspended’ as 50 killed in US strikes in July | US-Israel war on Iran News | Al Jazeera

Conflict has been escalating since US President Donald Trump declared 10 days ago that peace deal with Iran was over.

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