Conor Gallagher

As I understand it P63 had moved position by the time the drones came in at 11ish

YouTube video by Púca Selected aircraft movements - 01 DEC 2025

A video time line of the incident complete with GPS coordinates by @puca.bsky.social

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Image of the dark vessel captured by satellite shortly before last weeks drone incident. The next images are off the nearby Naval Service vessels P63 and P71.
EU satellite images identified ‘dark vessel’ in Irish Sea that could be linked to rogue drones

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Just as bad, the other guest Thomas Byrne, junior minister for defence, did have the facts to properly refute this guff. I'm really tired of these fact free debates about defence.

Ireland to donate air defence systems to Ukraine as war enters fourth year Continued support for Ukraine ‘a necessity and not a choice’, Simon Harris to tell EU foreign ministers

Paul Murphy on @mcculld.bsky.social there saying Ireland gave its primary radar system to Ukraine a few years ago. This is nonsense. Ireland donated a few obselete point defence radar systems (while retaining others). These are completely different things.

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€1.7bn Defence Forces plan announced amid ‘changing’ and ‘emerging’ threats Anti-drone technology will be in place by next summer that will ‘identify and neutralise’ drones that ‘may be a threat’

It's worth pointing out that the counter done technology promised today was supposed to be on place by Q3 2025. Per the government's implementation plan for the commission on defence report

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

It's oddly depressing when they tag musk or trump. The sheer desperation.

you want me to ask a lobby group for the defence industry about the identity of a ship off the irish coast?

a man with a beard in a dark room with the words one ping only please below him ALT: a man with a beard in a dark room with the words one ping only please below him

Anyway, for no reason in particular I might rewatch The Hunt for Red October later

Graphic by Paul Scott

‘Dark vessel’ in Irish Sea could be linked to rogue drones during Volodymyr Zelenskiy visit Airborne devices appeared in Dublin Bay, close to flight path of Ukrainian president’s plane

Images taken by a European Union satellite last week shortly before the sighting of five rogue drones in Dublin Bay show the nearby presence of a “dark vessel”, which appeared to be trying to hide its location.

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Former presidential hopeful Gareth Sheridan says photo with Tucker Carlson was at non-political event Irish businessman attended Christmas party in Nashville alongside figures from US right and celebrities

It's actually OK, he was only hanging out with the Hitler fanclub because it alligned with his business interests

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This is a weird one. He's hasn't actually explicitly accused Russia. But he is rejecting Russia's denial. Which is kind of the same thing?

It was also already announced in the national development programme earlier this year

Who's the little gremlin on his left arm

"Gareth Sheridan went to Tucker Carlson's Christmas party" is already crazy, but "Gareth Sheridan took a photo with the world's most famous antisemitic conspiracy theorist, then voluntarily posted it on the Internet" is blowing my fucking mind

"Gareth Sheridan went to Tucker Carlson's Christmas party" is already crazy, but "Gareth Sheridan took a photo with the world's most famous antisemitic conspiracy theorist, then voluntarily posted it on the Internet" is blowing my fucking mind

This is unusual. In a good way

It was queried. Then they got their answer and it is no longer being queried. Drones were within 500m of the ship

The Rheinmetalls also has no night optics

It was discussed at a high level before being discounted

Aside from everything else, this is the most disgusting trophy I've ever seen

On the Last Word about this now, on Today FM

Garda national security team investigating rogue drones during Zelenskiy visit Move comes as French military opens fire on five suspected drones over nuclear submarine base on Thursday

Garda national security team investigating rogue drones during Zelenskiy visit

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Garda national security team investigating rogue drones during Zelenskiy visit Move comes as French military opens fire on five suspected drones over nuclear submarine base on Thursday

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Breaking: The Garda Special Detective Unit, which is responsible for national security matters, has opened an investigation into drone sightings off Dublin on Monday.

This is a mental question. They allegedly crashed their vehicle through a security barrier and onto an airport runway. It would be a major failing if soldiers didn't draw their weapons

Drones spotted near Zelenskiy’s flight path to Dublin, triggering major security alert Irish navy ship spotted five drones operating near route of the Ukrainian president’s aircraft by Howth coast

Drones spotted near Zelenskiy’s flight path to Dublin, triggering major security alert

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Irish-trained Libyan troops appear in Russia fearing deployment to Ukraine Members of warlord Khalifa Haftar’s 166 Infantry Battalion expected to undergo further training in Belarus, Moscow’s ally

Irish-trained Libyan troops appear in Russia fearing deployment to Ukraine

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*coincidence

Also lots of shadow fleet in Irish EEZ today. Again, probably coincide but worth noting

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