Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin has said he does not consider the drone incident detected near Dublin shortly after Volodymyr Zelenskyy's arrival in early December to be a failure of the country's security services, stressing that they carried out a successful operation to ensure the Ukrainian president's safety.
Source: Martin in an interview with the Irish newspaper The Journal
Quote: "I think that this is getting lost and there's a lot of noise around security issues all the time and there is always an attempt to portray Ireland as a sort of a basket case.
I think our intelligence service works well, has very good relationships across the world and is very useful in certain scenarios."
Background:
- It was earlier reported that four unidentified drones had flown towards the flight path of the aircraft carrying Zelenskyy as it was landing at Dublin airport.
- These same drones also spied on the Irish naval vessel LÉ William Butler Yeats, which had been secretly deployed near Dublin.
- In Ireland, law enforcement has launched an official investigation into the incident with unidentified drones on the night of Zelenskyy's arrival in the country.
- On 10 December, Martin said that the drones did not pose a threat to Zelenskyy's aircraft.
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