'Critical' Irish security strategy still awaited four years on

 Irish naval vessel The Samuel Beckett docked at te naval base in Haulbowline, Cork.

A National Security Strategy is “critical” for Ireland, but one has still not been developed four years after the Government signalled its intention to devise it, a serving senior naval officer has said.

Lieutenant Commander Mike Brunicardi said that, in that time, the country’s health service has been hit by a cyber-attack and Russia has conducted naval exercises in Irish waters.