Cancelled navy patrols treble this year

At the beginning of this year, the Naval Service was forced to take two of its ships off operations due to outbreaks of Covid-19. File picture: Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie

The number of cancelled patrol days from the Irish Naval Service in the first 10 months of this year is almost three times the number of cancelled days for all of 2020.

Figures released by the Department of Defence show there were 223 cancelled patrol days between January 1 and October 31, with an average of 22.3 cancelled days a month.