Person: Eoin Smyth

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‘Mediterranean migrant crisis like the Famine’

A naval service ship has received a huge honour from Boston after its mayor declared that from now on the US city will mark every October 6 as LÉ Samuel Beckett Day.

Mon, 14 Oct, 2019

Families overjoyed as naval heroes from LÉ Samuel Beckett return from Mediterranean

LÉ Samuel Beckett’s crew saved 106 migrants from drowning, revived an unresponsive baby, searched ships for suspected gun-running and, at night, watched gun battles rage on the shore between rival militias fighting for control of Libya.

Sat, 21 Jul, 2018

Navy to return to Mediterranean to combat people-smuggling

The Cabinet will today approve the redeployment of the Naval Service to the Mediterranean Sea to hunt down people-smugglers to ‘search and destroy’ their pipelines from Libya into southern Europe, while still saving the hapless men, women, and children who are sent out to their near-certain deaths in leaking dinghies.

Tue, 27 Feb, 2018