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  • According to the DOD press release on the award the NS plans to have 10 PhDs and 30 Masters by 2016 as part of the project.

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    • Originally posted by DeV View Post
      According to the DOD press release on the award the NS plans to have 10 PhDs and 30 Masters by 2016 as part of the project.
      I like the Way the FOCNS thinks- how is the proposed educational qualifications broken down
      Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
      Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
      The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere***
      The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
      The best lack all conviction, while the worst
      Are full of passionate intensity.

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      • That's all it says.

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        • Slightly off thread, but on the heading of the NS showing us how it's done...

          "The Naval Service patrols the 15% of EU waters that are under Irish sovereign control.
          In the past five years the Naval Service has also intercepted €1.7bn worth of drugs in Irish waters.
          It has carried out 757 boardings and made eight detentions so far this year. Last year, it carried out 1,264 boardings and made 10 detentions."

          Numbers looking good!!

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          • Originally posted by Charlie Echo View Post
            Slightly off thread, but on the heading of the NS showing us how it's done...

            "The Naval Service patrols the 15% of EU waters that are under Irish sovereign control.
            In the past five years the Naval Service has also intercepted €1.7bn worth of drugs in Irish waters.
            It has carried out 757 boardings and made eight detentions so far this year. Last year, it carried out 1,264 boardings and made 10 detentions."

            Numbers looking good!!
            Something quiet rightly to be proud of
            Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
            Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
            The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere***
            The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
            The best lack all conviction, while the worst
            Are full of passionate intensity.

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            • Originally posted by DeV View Post
              That's all it says.

              Dev- Ireland could, and should, have a Navy 2-4 times its present size if the politicians had not fallen for the big con job of the EU Common Fishing Policy. Iceland and Norway have much to teach Ireland in this respect.

              It is clear that the policy of common fishing, as that of common farming, leads to lack of conservation. Witness how Iceland and Norway are conserving their cod and other fish resources.

              The capitulation of Ireland on the common fishing policy will have consequences far more dire than the consequences of the banking bail-out. These are the two great scandals of our time. Iceland was right both on Banking and Fisheries.



              Interesting paper here from an Icelandic and Norwegian perspective:-

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              • I watched an episode of 'Trawlermen' recently on Sky, a series about Scottish trawlers.

                One boat was targetting haddock, but caught a large catch of coalie instead.

                They already had their quota of coalie, so the fish went over the side, hundreds of them, dead.

                Senseless...but not the fishermens fault.
                'History is a vast early warning system'. Norman Cousins

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                • Discards have recently been outlawed.

                  Iceland has been raping european waters for years and their short sighted approach should not be condoned or encouraged.

                  Dead link tim.


                  Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

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                  • Originally posted by Goldie fish View Post
                    Discards have recently been outlawed.
                    Good. Common sense at last.
                    'History is a vast early warning system'. Norman Cousins

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                    • The FOCNS outlines his ideas.


                      Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

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                      • Why does he use 'the Navy'constantly as opposed to the Naval Service?, unusual for a FOCNS to move from the official terminology.
                        Covid 19 is not over ....it's still very real..Hand Hygiene, Social Distancing and Masks.. keep safe

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                        • Originally posted by hptmurphy View Post
                          Why does he use 'the Navy'constantly as opposed to the Naval Service?, unusual for a FOCNS to move from the official terminology.
                          I noticed that myself, perhaps he knows something we don't...
                          "We will hold out until our last bullet is spent. Could do with some whiskey"
                          Radio transmission, siege of Jadotville DR Congo. September 1961.
                          Illegitimi non carborundum

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                          • He also mentioned "the Service" a few times

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                            • Semantics. He is talking to suits.


                              Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

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                              • The Naval Service as starfleet. And why not? It should always have been an island nation's primary service except the Department of Finance has spent its entire history committed to the notion that independence really means Home Rule.

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