🇷🇺 launches new, state-of-the-art oceanographic vessel “Vice Admiral Burilichev” Project 22011 🚨 Intended for reconnaissance of underwater communications ⚠️An extensive section of this article details the actions of 🇷🇺YANTAR in 🇮🇪 waters during 2024 militarnyi.com/uk/news/rosi...

✅In this piece, we'll hear for the first time publicly from 3 key players involved in the military operation 🟢Captain of LÉ William Butler Yeats 🟢senior officer from Army Ranger Wing (ARW) 🟢Air Corps pilot who flew above the ship to allow ARW board jrnl.ie/6747937

⚠️The Irish Defence Forces monitored a 🇷🇺 cargo ship off 🇮🇪 coast yesterday The 'BARENTS' made its way through the Celtic Sea & sailed north into the Irish Sea overnight, passing over undersea infrastructure, with its transponder OFF www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

🏆🇮🇪 2024 Irish Defence Forces winners pulled off the feat yet again this year in 🇬🇧 at 2025 Arduous Serpent See footage of 🇮🇪 contingent at 7:30mins in, under command of Lt. Shane Curran from Co.Kildare👇 www.forcesnews.com/services/arm...

⚠️There is no single scenario for the outbreak of war in Europe but.. ..it could involve an attack on a weak state such as 🇮🇪, whose isolated location on 🇪🇺 western border in the N.Atlantic makes it vulnerable 🚨Neutral countries have no protection in war www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...

Mark Mellett former Defence Forces Chief of Staff with life long competency,consistently debunks the unhinged & conspiratorial nonsense from Mark Price,Co-Chair of the Irish Anti War Movement & founding member of the Irish Neutrality League ✅Essential listening link.goloudplayer.com/s/pGJVHvq2gvig

Harris “determined to bring🇮🇪in line with other similar sized Euro countries” re defence capabilities 🇮🇪 ➡️3rd largest island in Europe ➡️ranked 20th largest island in🌍 ➡️maritime area 7x size of its landmass ➡️7,500km coastline, longer than most🇪🇺states ➡️ wealthier than most www.rte.ie/news/politic...

Going pretty much as predicted. While the rest of Europe equips for war, we equip for Narnia (a fantasy world that never existed). The political body is waiting for something to happen before they act, hoping it will never happen so they can spend resources elsewhere on popular projects.

✅ using its membership of SAFE, 🇮🇪can partner with other countries to reduce waiting times & costs regarding much needed purchase of artillery/cyber/air defence systems & replace its aging Mowag fleet Other projects incl ammunition,artillery, ground combat capabilities & drones

✅ Ireland is to sign up to a major new EU defence initiative that will allow member states to jointly procure military equipment as the bloc seeks to rapidly rearm in the face of Russian aggression. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

🚨 Ireland’s continuing low level of defence expenditure — stuck at 0.2% of GDP — has been described as a “bad joke” just a day after EU partners in Nato agreed to boost their target spend from 2% to 3.5% of GDP. www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

As global tensions rise are we secure here in Ireland? This is how we should be discussing defence matters, listening to subject matter experts & an avoidance of hard leaning ideological political nonsense ✅Highly recommended listening link.goloudplayer.com/s/pGOWjLC0rUeF

⚠️ Should UNIFIL mandate NOT be renewed in August, an interim ‘new’ peacekeeping force, made from existing contributing nations is expected to be requested by 🇱🇧 (WITHOUT 🇺🇳 mandates) However 🇮🇪 CANNOT transitions to any new proposed peacekeeping force due to the TRIPLE LOCK www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

🇮🇪 has signed a multi-million euro deal with French company Thales DMS for sonar for the Irish Naval Service which will be able to detect submerged submarines and help to protect subsea cables. jrnl.ie/6733251

“It is perhaps a telling reflection of the changed world we live in today, that ‘Brexit’ no longer forms part of our daily lexicon, and that my Ministerial role now combines European Affairs with Defence” “It seems that security is, in effect, the new ‘Brexit” www.thejournal.ie/eu-white-pap...

🇬🇧will likely identify 🇮🇪 as a significant risk in its Strategic Defence Review shortly As Europe is expected to experience a decade of hybrid activity from 🇷🇺, Moscow has likely sent sabotage teams to 🇮🇪already to make plans Listen to what’s expected here👇 www.patreon.com/posts/129763...

Having a modern and well-equipped air force is now a necessity for Ireland www.thejournal.ie/readme/defen...

Legislation that will remove requirement for 🇺🇳 approval when deploying The Defence Forces has been published ✅Deployments will operate for the purposes of peacekeeping, conflict prevention & strengthening international security consistent with principles of the 🇺🇳 Charter www.rte.ie/news/2025/05...

🇷🇺in 🇮🇪EEZ raising concerns about HYBRID ATTACKS 🇷🇺sent agents to🇮🇪to prepare 🇮🇪Maritime Domain likely to become flashpoint 🇷🇺has sensors off🇮🇪coast 🇮🇪🇬🇧check infrastructure for explosives 🇷🇺ships arriving to🇮🇪ports empty,carry out surveillance 🇷🇺sonar washing up in🇮🇪

🇷🇺presence in 🇮🇪EEZ has raised concerns about possibilities of a hybrid attack on 🇮🇪infrastructure 🚨 “There is also credible intelligence that 🇷🇺 has sent agents into the state to map the landing points of subsea cables, with a view to damaging them.”

✅ The €60 million deal, due to be announced shortly will involve the purchase of Sonar equipment and the cost of training military personnel to use it to counteract 🇷🇺 shadow fleet of spy ships www.thetimes.com/article/7aa2...

✅ This is 🇮🇪 second time to participate in the exercise, following on from 2024. This year, 🇮🇪 forms Blue Team 17 along with personnel from the US, Bulgaria, and Greece. Some 30 countries are participating this year, with the exercise run on Estonian time www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

NEUTRAL Austria has planned for a total of 33 exercises and training measures abroad this year This month it is hosting troops from 🇩🇪& Neutral🇨🇭in a major exercise All three participating nations consider the threat from 🇷🇺 to be very real www.vindobona.org/article/tri-...

🚨 In the largest foreign exercise involving ground troops in 30 years, the🇨🇭army is practising recapturing land with 🇦🇹 and 🇩🇪soldiers. The fictitious scenario comes at a time of geopolitical uncertainty – and is being closely watched by 🇷🇺 www.swissinfo.ch/eng/foreign-...

NEUTRAL🇨🇭defence minister reaffirms importance of military cooperation with neighbours as Army participate in major exercise with 🇦🇹&🇩🇪 The Swiss Armed Forces cannot solve many issues autonomously. That is why it is important to practise interoperability www.swissinfo.ch/eng/foreign-...

Horrific attack on chaplain Fr Paul Murphy raises questions over whether Ireland’s counterterrorism and wider security infrastructure is sufficiently resourced to respond to violent extremism www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Items included in the legislative programme include a defence Bill on the deployment of peacekeepers – ie the bid to scrap the “triple lock” ✅ A positive step forward www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Almost two-thirds (65%) of ☘️ voters agree 🇮🇪 “must support sovereign countries when they are attacked by other countries” 29 countries surveyed found majority of voters worried that doing nothing in 🇺🇦encourages🇷🇺to take further military action elsewhere www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Indeed. They’re also doing damage to the cause of the Palestinian people. The massive stage they have to highlight the depravity of the situation in Gaza will now be categorized as being pro-terror.

🇮🇪 Tech firms pivot to defence as 🇪🇺 re-arms ⚠️ 🇮🇪 has a maritime area to protect that is 7️⃣times the size of its landmass 🚨 An estimated three-quarters of cables in the northern hemisphere lie in or close to 🇮🇪 waters & 🇷🇺 is actively stalking them www.ft.com/content/85f4...

In fairness, Cathal Berry has been saying this for quite a while now, certainly from when he was elected. It’s a pity the State won’t listen to experts in their field who have been constantly warning of this vulnerability. Still no contract announced for Sonar OR Primary Radar!

🚨Host & Former Defence Forces chief of staff ⁦‪Mark Mellett‬⁩ said surveillance by foreign actors “may well be a ticking time bomb” webinar heard a recommendation that 🇮🇪should harden the physical & cybersecurity of the land components of data cables www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

⚠️ 🇮🇪 would find it very difficult to fully secure its maritime area, even with significantly increased naval capabilities, according to a 🇺🇳 expert on subsea security ✅ Working with partner nations is the only way forward www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

⚠️Hostile states & cyber gangs pose “significant risks” to 🇮🇪Defence Forces & its international partners —new cyber strategy News comes as figures show strength of military is now 7,502 compared to established strength of 9,739 & LOA2 target of 11,500 www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

Irish troops deploying to the Unifil mission in Lebanon next month will be entering a “highly volatile and unpredictable” operating environment, including a potential hostile civilian population, according to their commanding officer. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

🇮🇪 is set to become a member of an alliance of European nations that shares intelligence on potential threats in 🇪🇺 waters The Defence Forces will formally join the Common Information Sharing Environment (CISE) to boost the country's maritime surveillance www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

50% of 🇮🇪 electricity generation is powered by gas Two gas pipelines from 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 to 🇮🇪 are the source of 80% of gas usage here with the remaining 20% coming from the Corrib gasfield We should be investing (& fast) in protecting this infrastructure from 🇷🇺 www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

@royk.bsky.social 48 hours of gas for the entire Country is all that would remain should the pipes be severed! Cathal Berry has raised this point several times well before the Yantar appeared off the coast of Drogheda.

🚨 Damage to Ireland's subsea gas interconnectors would have a catastrophic impact on the country’s energy supply, Minister for the Environment Darragh O’Brien has been warned. www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

Good explainer from Cathal Berry regarding the latest, in a long line of increasing 🇷🇺 NAVY intrusions off 🇮🇪 coast 🚨The risks to critical subsea infrastructure has never been greater, Particularly at a time when we have never been more vulnerable www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

🚨Russian intelligence ship located in Irish-controlled waters not responding to communication The Viktor Leonov, monitored by the LÉ Samuel Beckett, has not revealed its purpose in Irish seas www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Deep delving report here from @CormacJOKeeffe, raising significant concerns re 🇮🇪 defence vulnerabilities ⚠️A sobering reminder how vulnerable society is & how it would be impacted by any attack All whilst European partners warn against increasing 🇷🇺hybrid actions against 🇪🇺 nations

🚨gas & electricity supply highly vulnerable to attack 🇮🇪 is experiencing hybrid actions by🇷🇺 Known🇷🇺vessel Yantar entered Irish Sea, loitered over cables between🇮🇪&🇬🇧in Nov ⚠️more concerningly, 2 gas lines from🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 AND critical⚡️interconnector between🇮🇪&🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 targeted too www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...

Very concerning indeed, but also not surprising; and concerns 🇮🇪🇳🇴🇬🇧 and all of 🇪🇺.

🚨This long & intricate read should raise significant concerns in 🇮🇪 Long before its full invasion of 🇺🇦, 🇷🇺 has been developing highly sophisticated technology with the intention to compromise critical undersea infrastructure that will effect 🇮🇪 directly www.thetimes.com/article/f3cb...

Mick Clifford: Strip search claims at Leinster House protest raise real questions — and some invented ones Dáil claims of Garda sexual violence demand real investigation but not at the cost of facts or credibility Are lies being told by opposition TD’s? www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

🇮🇪imports 81% of total primary energy needs via the sea (2023) 🇮🇪electricity network is connected to 🇬🇧 via undersea cables too Celtic Interconnector will link 🇮🇪to🇫🇷 in 2026 🇮🇪“extremely exposed” & has “massive responsibility” with limited defensive capabilities www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

🚨 "There is an intelligence assessment that 🇷🇺 will test 🇪🇺defences within 3-5 years" “weakness invites aggressors to attack” 🇪🇺White Paper on Defence 3 objectives👇 🔴 Support🇺🇦in its darkest hour 🔴 Create "steel porcupine" & DETER 🇷🇺 🔴 Prepare for 🇺🇸 withdrawal from Europe www.rte.ie/news/analysi...