Eamon Dillon

I mean, there might have been someone else who might have recruited them further back.

Yeah, that's exactly, it was landed somewhere else.

It wasn't landed where they took off from and where they returned to, where they were arrested by the guards.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And, you know, and I suppose like the Shannon Estuary is a perfect spot in a way that, you know, unless you already have a helicopter in the air and units on both sides of the estuary, you're not going to be able to redirect whatever resources you have on one side to the other.

Unless you're, you know, you're coming fully equipped with...

with, you know, helicopter assets and boats in the estuary and units on both sides.

I mean, it would take a huge amount of resources.

And we don't know exactly how much time the guards had to react to this.

It could have been a matter of minutes or hours or, you know, whether it was longer than that, we don't really know at this stage.

Yeah.

Two Scottish and Irish and a UK citizen.

Yeah, 20 ton.

And there's quite a number.

Yeah, that was the whole kind of... I suppose they're Bosnian Serbs and they specialized in recruiting mariners because so many of those people had...

gone to work for you know the big cargo ships yeah and so they had an in there and they'd hit up these people when they came home to visit and they more than often get an offer they can't refuse they'd have to get they'd either take the money or face retribution and and in some cases the money was quite good you know you're talking six figure sums a million euro i think was one of them for one of the top guys i mean they had people at a high level on that particular boat

Don't forget the MV Matthew though was three times the size of the one we're talking about in the MV Royal.

So I mean, while MV Moir might be one, Matthew was a whole other, I suppose, level of scale again.

And we don't know if there's ships that have successfully come in with twice what the MV Matthew had.