Kevin Byrne

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213 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 6 Sep

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The Pat Kenny Show · Neutrality vs reality: Ireland’s defence gap · 6 Sep 2026 podcast

That's not to reflect on the current minister or anybody before that.

But you can't take security seriously if you don't have a full time minister for defence like that.

That's just one thing like that.

Nor do we have a secret service.

And people say, Stop banging on about that.

But you have a filtered system from the Gardashi Kona uh and the military service, and they're both very good like that.

But we don't have what every other country west of Albania

has, and that's a civil run civil service to filter the stuff out and give it to the appropriate ministers and say, This is our assessment of what goes on, these are the threats.

We don't have that.

We've got the Gardish Economy whose job is to prosecute people in many cases, and we've got the army which is supposed to carry guns and guard us against external and internal threats.

We don't have a filtered system.

And really we could and we should have it and I suspect Michael Collins a hundred years ago would have put that in place had it not been for the his

Well there's always wood there were always two aircraft uh north and south of England and what they call QRA quick re reaction alert like that.

They could move that if they wanted to Devalley.

But you know there'll be submarines?

And that this there this this naval vessel, the Royal Navy's frigate, will be out there somewhere as well.

Probably we're going to have some German assistance as well.

I saw on again online I saw people in uniforms in a military Burnocks who weren't wearing Irish and Army uniforms, so I figure they're either Germans or

French and they had an equipment piece, anti drone by the look of it, which wasn't our own in inherent equipment.

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