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BY LT CDR ROBERTA O'BRIEN PHOTOS BY A/SEA DAVID JONES
A Rigid Inflatable Boat in action
The importance of the Naval Service to the state can be seen when it is considered that Ireland's jurisdictional rights include an enormous maritime domain, the largest in the north-western EU. Similarly to property rights, jurisdictional rights that are not upheld are in danger of becoming more imaginary than real, with consequential bad outcomes for the state, such as illegal resource extraction, illegal dumping and drug trafficking.
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