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April 03 2022 02:30 AM
In the belle époque of January, the country rallied to its favourite sport: cheering on the underdog. A fleet of Irish fishermen was preparing to sail to confront the Russian navy, who were planning live-fire exercises in Irish fishing waters off the south-west coast. “We’re not averse to danger in our industry — we’re no shrinking violets,” Patrick Murphy, head of the Irish South & West Fish Producers Organisation, told the US news channel MSNBC.
The Russian ambassador to Ireland, Yuriy Filatov, invited the fishermen to the embassy, and Russia duly announced they would relocate their naval drills. Filatov told an Oireachtas committee the decision was made “on humanitarian grounds” to avoid “unnecessary hardship” for Ireland’s fishing industry. “Irish fishermen stare down Putin’s navy and won,” proclaimed MSNBC.
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