Irish Naval Mediterranean EU rescue patrols

[Laners]

The horse meat scandal goes back at lot longer than you think .

[moggy]

Lancers roast beef ' a la tow.' Anyway back to the main topic eithne has been off ais and i think its turned off for ops reasons

[na grohmiti]

Yup, looks that way now. There is always the danger that the traffickers will make a bee-line for the rescue vessels, and dump their human cargo over the side, knowing they will have to be rescued.

The Italians have been seeing this for a while.

[Sparky42]

First catch of the patrol today.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/le-eithne-rescues-at-least-88-migrants-off-libya-coast-31261371.html

[Kicker]

[Kicker]

[Sparky42]

Breaking news is no reporting that it was up to 200 saved.

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/irish-naval-flagship-rescues-more-than-200-migrants-679256.html

Either way, good job and hopefully it will be a good learning experience for the navy to work with all the other navies in this.

[tomh903]

Well done to the crew but its not a good feeling looking at those pictures and realising that the smiling occupants of those crammed boats will soon be heading our way thanks to the EU and we have absolutely no idea what they were doing/have done back in their home country.

[TangoSierra]

There's a KKK joke somewhere in those photos!

Relax folks - it's called dark humour before anyone behind a keyboard gets upset. Well done to all involved in the op

[sofa]

Well done to the crew but its not a good feeling looking at those pictures and realising that the smiling occupants of those crammed boats will soon be heading our way thanks to the EU and we have absolutely no idea what they were doing/have done back in their home country.

yep

there even worse then the Irish for infesting other peoples county's

[Sparky42]

yep

there even worse then the Irish for infesting other peoples county's

I know, all those illegals in the states that we keep demanding get a free pass into the states...

[hptmurphy]

I see people having to climb jumping ladders.......fcuking madness,

[Laners]

I see people having to climb jumping ladders.......fcuking madness,

How about a cargo net and just dump them all into it .

[Rhodes]

Just seen on Facebook that another 300 taken were on board early this morning and 100 more in the last hour.

[Orion]

Any idea how many people can be safely accommodated before the need to offload?