Ireland’s Geneva Conventions Act (1962), as amended in 1998, provides that any “minor breach” of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, including violations of Articles 14, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 38, 50, 89, 91, 127 and 132 of the Geneva Convention IV, and of the 1977 Additional Protocol I, including violations of Articles 70(1) and 76(2), are punishable offences.