Good to speak to Shane Coleman on Newstalk this week about the Russian ships that were in Irish waters over the weekend.
“Normal practice is if you have a sensitive convoy moving through your economic waters, you would put out at least one of your naval ships to shadow that convoy. Unfortunately, Ireland had no capability from a crewing shortage point of view to deploy a ship… so we had to rely on the Air Corps.
A lack of capability from the Defence Forces to even shadow Russian ships off the Irish coast is simply not good enough for a sovereign state.”
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