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# Ireland funds EUR 470,000 research programme on subsea cable sabotage risk
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2025-12-05-ireland-maritime-cable-security-programme/
- Published: 2025-12-05T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-08T12:00:56.000Z
- Description: Ireland's Department of Defence and Department of Climate jointly fund a EUR 470,000, two year programme to study sabotage and espionage risks to subsea cables and other maritime infrastructure. It starts in 2026 at Cork's National Maritime College.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Compute and infrastructure, Defence and space, #news, #reported, #editor-read

Reported Editor-read [Irish Times, 5 December 2025](https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2025/12/05/research-programme-to-assess-risk-of-sabotage-and-spying-on-irish-cables/?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** This does not establish any decision to deploy new protective hardware or rules, only to fund a risk study.

**How this item counts.** This item is dated before the index starts on 1 January 2026, so it does not count in the [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/).

**How this item was made.** Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above; read and approved by the editor on 2026-10-07\. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)