Conor Gallagher

um acquisition that is ongoing is um new ammunition for various platforms and this is called air burst ammunition and it's basically um very sophisticated bullets that can kind of detonate in the air near their target and kind of take out the target kind of like a flat cannon from world war ii um so that mitigates the risk of those uh those those rounds landings say

somewhere where it could cause danger to civilians.

So that's another area that's being looked at.

Yeah, so the government have been very tight-lipped about the investigation which was being carried out by the Special Detective Unit.

Obviously, some people have suggested Russia might be behind it, especially given who was arriving in the country at the time and that it was an attempt to embarrass Ireland.

But the government haven't attributed blame, at least not publicly.

And

While there is video of we understand there is video of the the incident that hasn't been released, which is probably to be expected if there's an ongoing investigation.

But it's a bit of a mystery.

And that's the situation where a lot of these drone incursions, sometimes they are very suspicious and indeed could be attributable to Russia.

Other times they've turned out to be hobbyists or, you know,

things that were misidentified as drones.

So a bit of caution is needed, I think, uh, in this area as well, not to get too worried or too excited about every single, you know, mysterious object in the sky.

Yeah, a hundred percent.

And, you know, obviously drones are just one part of it.

Uh,

We're probably going to see an uptick in cyber attacks.

We're going to see an uptick in online disinformation.

The goal is to embarrass Ireland, to expose and exploit fractures within the EU.

So there's a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes to mitigate that.