Irish man guilty of stealing secret nuclear codes from British navy.

Ghandee

Someone has been a bold boy!

AN IRISH submariner has admitted collecting secret codes that could be useful to an enemy of Britain.

Royal Navy petty officer Edward Devenney, 30, from Strabane, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to gathering details of encryption programmes in breach of the Official Secrets Act. He also admitted a charge of misconduct in a public office in relation to a meeting with two people he thought were from the secret service of another state.

Devenney admitted meeting two people whom he thought were from the Russian secret service and discussing information relating to the movement of nuclear submarines.

The Official Secrets Act charge was collecting information for a purpose prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State between November 18 last year and March 7 this year. He gathered details of "crypto material" -programmes used to encrypt secret information -which could be useful to an enemy.

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/irish-officer-in-british-navy-guilty-of-collecting-secret-nuclear-codes-3292197.html


Pasty Bravo!

thebigbiffo

The depths some people will go to...

Pilotdude5

I wish my life was that interesting.

uch

thebigbiffo wrote: »

The depths some people will go to...

Boom Boom

LordSutch

Court-marshall in the offing I presume?

1ZRed

Well he may as well print them out and hang them on the wall because those nuclear secrets won't have any use here.

Duggy747

The Cùnt of Red October

biko

They will have to change them from "QWERTY" now.

gobnaitolunacy

biko wrote: »

They will have to change them from "QWERTY" now.

Or "password"!

davetherave

That would be Northern Irish man then?

VictorRomeo

Pilotdude5 wrote: »

I wish my life was that interesting.

He's going down....

Zillah

Apparently getting away with international espionage is hard or something

afro man

Ghandee wrote: »

Someone has been a bold boy!


http://www.independent.ie/national-news/irish-officer-in-british-navy-guilty-of-collecting-secret-nuclear-codes-3292197.html


Pasty Bravo!

is strabane not in N ireland therefore making him English if he was a war hero headline would be English officer....

GhostInTheRuins

afro man wrote: »

is strabane not in N ireland therefore making him English if he was a war hero headline would be English officer....

Jaysis...

maximoose

afro man wrote: »

is strabane not in N ireland therefore making him English

Very strange jump in logic you have there.

Ghandee

davetherave wrote: »

That would be Northern Irish man then?

Not this shyte again.

ProudDUB

Eh no. Being from a town in Northern Ireland does not make you English. It makes you a citizen of the United Kingdom of Great Briton and Northern Ireland.

But yeah, you can bet your bottom dollar if this guy had done something good, on the BBC, he would be "British war hero" and not "Northern Irish/Irish" spy.

Ghandee

ProudDUB wrote: »

Eh no. Being from a town in Northern Ireland does not make you English. It makes you a citizen of the United Kingdom of Great Briton and Northern Ireland.

That's not strictly true.

The right to self determination and all that.

Agent Smith

Ghandee wrote: »

That's not strictly true.

The right to self determination and all that.

If he's in the british Navy, Its a pretty safe bet to guess where he's going to say he's from....

Cavehill Red

davetherave wrote: »

That would be Northern Irish man then?

North-Western Irish man if we want to be totally exact...

Local-womanizer

Afaik it's extremely difficult for a person from the Republic of Ireland to get a posting to a nuclear sub in the Royal Navy. Think you have to be a UK citizen.

Anything in communications and subs is restricted to us across the wall!

SeaFields

Is this a death sentence if he's found guilty?

Agent Smith

SeaFields wrote: »

Is this a death sentence if he's found guilty?

No Death Sentence in the European Union




he wont be enjoying his showers for a long time anyway.... :pac:

SeaFields

Agent Smith wrote: »

No Death Sentence in the European Union

I thought that there was related to spying in many countries. Maybe I've been watching too much Homeland and 24 :pac:

LordSutch

I presume the 'British Navy' is the same as the Royal Navy.

http://www.savetheroyalnavy.org/blogphotos/HMSIndefensible.jpg

Rascasse

ProudDUB wrote: »

But yeah, you can bet your bottom dollar if this guy had done something good, on the BBC, he would be "British war hero" and not "Northern Irish/Irish" spy.

If you read the link you'll see its an Irish newspaper describing him as Irish. The BBC actually make no reference to his nationality, describing him as a "Royal Navy submariner".


How stupid do you have to be to try this? Wasn't there a guy from MI6 offering to sell a list of spies to the Dutch (great enemy of Britain that they are). I wonder if this one was motivated by money or politics.

davetherave

Ghandee wrote: »

Davetherave wrote:

That would be Northern Irish man then?

Not this shyte again.

I hate this shyte as much as you do, but the OP's header and the article say "Irish". I take that to mean Irish as in 26 counties, Republic of Irelandish.

If he was a submariner then he couldn't be Irish
http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/Careers/How-To-Join/Eligibility
iii. Only candidates holding British nationality are eligible for the Submarine Service. No nationality waivers will be considered.

Remmy

the cute hoor, selling secrets is a good aul racket

Cavehill Red

davetherave wrote: »

I hate this shyte as much as you do, but the OP's header and the article say "Irish". I take that to mean Irish as in 26 counties, Republic of Irelandish.

Then you take things wrong. He's as Irish as you are and so am I. Suck it up.

CruelCoin

Well AH standards are taking a dive

thecornflake

CruelCoin wrote: »

Well AH standards are taking a dive

Diving right through the bottom of that barrel.

MagicMarker

Da bleedin' dope!

rugbyman

Remmy (martin?)


added one word

the cute hoor,SUCCESSFULLY selling secrets is a good aul racket !

Rugbyman

afro man

maximoose wrote: »

Very strange jump in logic you have there.

Why so strange ? rory mc ilroy / daren clarke all english golfers when they win according to English media.. personally if you born in N.ireland that makes you Irish in my view. hence the SMILEY face in my reply was tryin to be sarcastic

Micky Dolenz

Suppose he doesn't like seaman.

summerskin

afro man wrote: »

Why so strange ? rory mc ilroy / daren clarke all english golfers when they win according to English media.. personally if you born in N.ireland that makes you Irish in my view. hence the SMILEY face in my reply was tryin to be sarcastic

Absolute nonsense that has been debunked on here dozens of times. They are always referred to as northern Irish, just as any Murray was Scottish when he won the us open and Olympics. The only people who believe that crãp are bitter little-irelanders...

maximoose

summerskin wrote: »

Absolute nonsense that has been debunked on here dozens of times. They are always referred to as northern Irish, just as any Murray was Scottish when he won the us open and Olympics. The only people who believe that crãp are bitter little-irelanders...

It's not even correct nonsense this time. Usually it's "British when they win, Scottish/Welsh/Northern Irish when they don't"

sealgaire

yea typical, he is Irish now... if he was a good golfer he would be British...


edit,..... looks like this has been mentioned .....

summerskin

sealgaire wrote: »

yea typical, he is Irish now... if he was a good golfer he would be British...


edit,..... looks like this has been mentioned .....

Yep, along with the fact that the bbc never mentioned where he was from but the indo did.

What a shame, can't bash the British for this one....

Fratton Fred

afro man wrote: »

Why so strange ? rory mc ilroy / daren clarke all english golfers when they win according to English media.. personally if you born in N.ireland that makes you Irish in my view. hence the SMILEY face in my reply was tryin to be sarcastic

please, get yourself a map and learn the difference between Britain, the UK, Northern Ireland and England. Rory McIlroy and Darren Clarke have never been and never will be described as English.

What was this guy playing at. Did he really think he could pass the codes to the Russkis without MI5 getting involved?

Aah well, I hear Guantanamo is nice this time of year.

humanji

Folks, don't turn this into the usual "what constitutes being Irish" thread, and stick to the actual topic.

3ndahalfof6

The fool, it was the sub keys we were looking for.

Rascasse

The Mail has the reason he gave.

He had wanted to ‘hurt the navy’ because he was angry that a free electrical engineering degree course he had been due to take had been ‘binned’ because of budget cuts.

Eejit.

Chuck Stone

Deep sea fission for secrets.

DingChavez

Typical perfidious Irish man.

Iwasfrozen

Cavehill Red wrote: »

Then you take things wrong. He's as Irish as you are and so am I. Suck it up.

No he isn't. If he was he wouldn't be on a submarine in the first place. So suck that up.

Micky Dolenz

He is all out to sea now.

Zebra3

But did he wear a poppy?

That's the big question....

who the fug

Zebra3 wrote: »

But did he wear a poppy?

That's the big question....

No but he was wearing a pink carnation and carrying a copy of the times

Aodh Rua

davetherave wrote: »

the OP's header and the article say "Irish". I take that to mean Irish as in 26 counties, Republic of Irelandish.

Then perhaps you need to look at a map: "Irish" people come from Ireland, surprisingly. At present the country of Ireland is divided into two states. Everybody from this country is Irish, regardless of whether they are in the independent state, or the state still under British occupation. Some 700,000 people living in the part of Ireland still under British rule choose to hold Irish passports today. Their right to citizenship of the Irish nation is protected under international law.

From my experience the average Irish person in south Armagh or west Tyrone is more culturally Irish than the average person in Dublin who, through tv and internet, is saturated with British (particularly sporting culture) and US culture and has now little attachment to an Irish cultural tradition.

summerskin

Aodh Rua wrote: »

Then perhaps you need to look at a map: "Irish" people come from Ireland, surprisingly. At present the country of Ireland is divided into two states. Everybody in the country is Irish, regardless of whether they are in the independent state, or the state still under British occupation. Some 700,000 people living in the part of Ireland still under British rule choose to hold Irish passports today. They have their right to it protected under international law.

From my experience the average Irish person in south Armagh or west Tyrone is more culturally Irish than the average person in Dublin who through tv and internet is saturated with British and US culture and has now little attachment to an Irish cultural tradition.

Oh god no. Another poster with an Irish username talking about occupation... The majority of Nordies, protestant or catholic, want to be part of the UK, leave them alone and let them get on with stealing nuclear stuff.

Yer bloke in the OP felt so Irish he joined the Royalnavy.