Ireland - now considered one of most vulnerable countries in the EU (defense wise)

Like how you quoted me but ignored what I asked in the quote.

Let's flip it. How can NATO help Ireland with threats that aren't on Irish terrority, that you allude to.

What we need for policing is entirely different to military interventions. It's a disingenuous comparison.

That said both need properly resourcing at the appropriate scale.

This is a scandal, the national security of the nation is clearly compromised. Does anyone have any confidence that his government has the capability to stop an international Islamic terror group from operating in this country?

I would be quite happy to take the position of Singapore on this one. If you're caught bringing large quantities of drugs into this country then you're going to be executed.

I don't have the answer, just merely opining that the Singapore approach is an option.

We have an Islamic terror organistion shipping industrial quantities of cocaine into this country.

Do we shrug our shoulders and just accept this, or should we view this as an important issue and act accordingly?

Re monitoring land , air and sea - if we set information from this monitoring that is serious re threatening our safety , what should we do with. Should we all up our fleet of attack ships, our fleet of aerial fighters or an array of our fighting fit soldiers or what?

Re your fifth paragraph - that was then , this is now

No I'm not forgetting about depth. Because any cable has to come to the surface. So its at reachable (vulnerable) depths for considerable distance. So the whole, "they are too deep" is a fallacy.

The Russians for example have their own deep diving AC31 "..known to have operated at about 2,000–2,500 metres (6,600–8,200 ft) depth" and have past experience with deep diving submarines. Of course it might dive deeper who knows. The Titanic is at 3,800 metres and we have video of that. So it's hardly a stretch to get to the cables. Not as I've said you have to attack them at the deepest spot either. They don't need surface ships to do it either.

Point being not that they are vulnerable. But they are very difficult to defend militarily. So joining NATO expecting that, is deluded.

But we still need to resource the armed forced properly. That's a different issue.

Exactly.

It not that Russia can't do these things, or that they wouldn't just cause trouble. Since they do stupid stuff all the time. It just there's other things they can do with less effort. More resources in Cyber might be more useful as a result.

But again we still need our defence forces properly resourced even for a policing role.

They've found the titanic. Somehow I think something a few thousand km long is going to a lot easier to find. Then there's the fact they've built very expensive specialised equipment and trained specialised teams to do exactly that.

That said its not something I personally would lose any sleep over.

Oddly enough when I check if what you said is true I find it's about pitches in active use by all ages in an active football club. Not a park that was last used 50 yrs ago by someone's grandad as you've implied.

Maybe they should do what they did in the NCH and build new pitches on the roof of whatever they put there.

Though I don't get the analogy with Russia.