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Sounds familiar…

LÉ Eithne and LÉ Orla of the Irish Navy @naval_service remain laid up as a result of personnel retention crisis across
Irish Defence Forces.

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/we-h ... -1.4123755 …

Irish Naval Service,Samuel Beckett Class OPV LÉ William Butler Yeats.

NavyLookout
@NavyLookout
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4h
.@hms_tyne exercises with Irish @naval_service OPV LÉ George Bernard Shaw in the Celtic Sea

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and this from Irish Naval Service:-

Irish Naval Service Retweeted
HMS Tyne
@hms_tyne
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15 Jun
TYNE alongside the Irish @naval_service
OPV Le George Bernard Shaw to practice a RAS (transferring stores and provisions).

We met up this morning for a series of exercises for mutual training and to aid interoperability. Stay tuned!

@UKDefenceDublin
@RoyalNavy


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Excerpts of a few tweeted responses/replies ... Note:-

Jo Foster
@rathjay
·
15 Jun
Replying to
@hms_tyne
and
@RoyalNavy
A small note, the LÉ is all capitals in Irish naval ship names, it stands for ‘Long Éireannach’ in Irish translating as ‘Irish Ship’.


richard walsh
@WalshmrG
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23h
Equivelent to HMS, or USS, yes?


Owen Connolly
@The_oc81
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22h
Yes

Also worth taking a good look at the series of tweets and images included in the @hms_tyne twitter account.

HMS Tyne
@hms_tyne
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6h
10/
We very much look forward to working with the @naval_service
again in the future, hopefully including a meeting in person when we can return to more normal times.

Thank you very much. Fair winds and following seas. TYNE out.

#HavingTheTYNEOfOurLives

Irish ​patrol vessels ‘needed to deal with tensions’ over fishing

Irish ​Naval Service warships will be needed to deal with tensions at sea between Irish and British fishing vessels, the Irish Parliament has been told.
Foreign Affairs and Defence Minister Simon Coveney warned that there would be “tensions between fleets” in the event of no trade deal being agreed between Britain and the EU, with local media raising prospects of confrontations akin to the Cod Wars between British and Icelandic fishermen in 1973 in which vessels were damaged.

Coveney was quoted as saying:
Continues, note links in blue, at:
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/irish-g ... xeT9D3uIpk

I guess we could expect no less from the Irish after we leave to EU . After all , wasn't it they who granted access to Hitler's UBoats during WWII ....... they are only echoing that lot across the Channel .

Come on UK ...... take back our waters ... we know how to fight a Cod War .

Sadly Dave the generation we have now only talk about rights owed them .......so dont expect them to do anything about it when its far easier to blame our government like every thing else .....all Gob ...no backbone it seems

Irish Naval Service,Lead Ship, OPV LÉ Samuel Beckett 2021.

Ireland's Naval Service marks its 75th anniversary

Although Ireland gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1922, it was not until 1938 that the young state gained control of its own waters.

The early task of the Marine and Coastwatching Service was to protect Ireland's neutrality during World War Two, but in 1946 the service became the permanent maritime component of the Irish Defence Forces.

Over the next 75 years, the service's responsibilities have expanded to include everything from intelligence gathering, surveillance and maritime interdiction - including drug enforcement - to search and rescue and fishery protection.

Informative article, including photos etc. at - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58174618

Irish Naval Service, Samuel Beckett Class OPV LÉ William Butler Yeats pictured at Cobh yesterday.