Kevin Byrne
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213 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 6 Sep
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Yes, and indeed uh I had some hands on with the last two presidential visits before uh President Trump was elected, and Air Force One and Marine One will be seen in the skies of Ireland and you know what there there's a whole lot of protocols in connection with that and we're seeing that to some extent now.
It coincides of course with our presidency of the you know, Council of Europe and so forth, and that is in itself doubling the workload so it is, because you can't have one without the other, and we are at the pin of our collar in some ways.
Mm-hmm.
Question.
Uh well we do have two naval vessels and uh we can, you know, call on other friends as it were.
Everyone thinks this is secret, but it's not, because once the helicopter got airborne it was transponding.
So, you know, everybody could say, Oh, did you see the Merlin out, you know, at twenty two kilometres?
They could actually track its its its uh route and so forth.
And the same is true of almost every aircraft because they have to tell the civil side what's going on out there in case there's a confliction with civil traffic.
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Yes, and I suspect those helicopters are in Dublin already because there was a number of C seventeens uh again not secret landing in Dublin.
Five of them landed in Dublin in recent times.
They bring in various armored vehicles and that kind of thing.
And the last time they came in they had the the helicopters which are then, you know, rebuilt so to speak and they fly around.
Uh it's And I mean Marine One is only
Marine one when the president is i is in it.
People think that the aircraft type or the call sign the call sign is actually telling you Air Force One and he has two of them now, as you know.
Actually three of them to be quite honest.
He's a new one from Qatar, which he flies sometimes if he's not hiding in a in a in a container vessel or something.
And he that that aircraft becomes Air Force One and the helicopter he flies in, depending on the on the type, doesn't matter what type it is, is Marine One.
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