4am, 345 miles from the Irish coast, winching a sick man into a helicopter. Isn’t it amazing all the same, the work our coast guard does. Props to the Brits for lending an aircraft in support when the air corps aircraft was otherwise detained.
Another one just happened this time with UK Coastguard providing top cover this morning of the SW coast, Thats twice this week the Irish Air core could not provide an aircraft… [https://x.com/IrishCoastGuard/status/1800126512001175811](https://x.com/IrishCoastGuard/status/1800126512001175811)
3 times in a fortnight now we’ve needed their assistance, it’s getting embarrassing.
We really need to sort this shit out for ourselves. Props to all the service that we have,but we could do better.
I adjusted my crown reading that headline.
Always good to see cooperation all the same.
Fair play to ‘em. So our Airbus was otherwise engaged. But whatever about its suitability for such missions, we’ve now agreed a deal with HM Coastguard for the future, to accompany our 🚁man from Waterford who gets called out for anything involving floods, rivers, or maritime emergencies. You’d wonder why we never did this before now, since we clearly have long been in need of assistance!
But good grief, that poor Danish bloke all that way out to sea and the emergency services dithering about who to call on. Hope he’s recovered well.
Regardless of how we need to get our own affairs in order fair play to the brits. Very neighbourly
At it again
Is there an Irish army or Air Force or navy and I don’t mean the IRA.?
I’m from the states and I don’t know. Just trying to learn more about my ancestor’s from my dad’s side. We’re from county Limerick.
I’d love to know what our Airbus was actually doing as it’s been unavailable twice recently to provide top cover 🤔
Isn’t that twice this week? We have a single working naval ship, now we’re down to no available aircraft.
That mission the Rangers undertook recently had the same issue. One working helicopter in the whole country, which had to be removed from air ambulance availability. No further helicopters for top cover or in the case of failure. CASA aircraft above also had computer failure.
It’s embarrassing.
This is getting silly, we have a 3% budget surplus, we could afford to put half of that into defence like every other bloody country in western europe. It’s just embarassing that the UK are paying for our defence at this point.
The British plane tagged along for “top cover” as the Air Corps’ C295 wasn’t available for flight yet. What is top cover?
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4am, 345 miles from the Irish coast, winching a sick man into a helicopter. Isn’t it amazing all the same, the work our coast guard does. Props to the Brits for lending an aircraft in support when the air corps aircraft was otherwise detained.
Another one just happened this time with UK Coastguard providing top cover this morning of the SW coast, Thats twice this week the Irish Air core could not provide an aircraft… [https://x.com/IrishCoastGuard/status/1800126512001175811](https://x.com/IrishCoastGuard/status/1800126512001175811)
3 times in a fortnight now we’ve needed their assistance, it’s getting embarrassing.
We really need to sort this shit out for ourselves. Props to all the service that we have,but we could do better.
I adjusted my crown reading that headline.
Always good to see cooperation all the same.
Fair play to ‘em. So our Airbus was otherwise engaged. But whatever about its suitability for such missions, we’ve now agreed a deal with HM Coastguard for the future, to accompany our 🚁man from Waterford who gets called out for anything involving floods, rivers, or maritime emergencies. You’d wonder why we never did this before now, since we clearly have long been in need of assistance!
But good grief, that poor Danish bloke all that way out to sea and the emergency services dithering about who to call on. Hope he’s recovered well.
Regardless of how we need to get our own affairs in order fair play to the brits. Very neighbourly
At it again
Is there an Irish army or Air Force or navy and I don’t mean the IRA.?
I’m from the states and I don’t know. Just trying to learn more about my ancestor’s from my dad’s side. We’re from county Limerick.
I’d love to know what our Airbus was actually doing as it’s been unavailable twice recently to provide top cover 🤔
Isn’t that twice this week? We have a single working naval ship, now we’re down to no available aircraft.
That mission the Rangers undertook recently had the same issue. One working helicopter in the whole country, which had to be removed from air ambulance availability. No further helicopters for top cover or in the case of failure. CASA aircraft above also had computer failure.
It’s embarrassing.
This is getting silly, we have a 3% budget surplus, we could afford to put half of that into defence like every other bloody country in western europe. It’s just embarassing that the UK are paying for our defence at this point.
The British plane tagged along for “top cover” as the Air Corps’ C295 wasn’t available for flight yet. What is top cover?