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IIEA and Vodafone Ireland warn of serious risk to Ireland's subsea cables

A paper by IIEA researchers Cian FitzGerald and Barry Colfer, launched with Vodafone Ireland, found 75 percent of transatlantic cables transit Irish waters and many of Ireland's 14 landing cables are near 80 percent of their expected lifetime.

Reported Editor-read RTE.ie, 23 July 2026

What it does not test. Does not establish that government has adopted the paper's call for tax credits or new intelligence sharing on cable protection.

How this item counts. No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0. Warning study only; government hasn't adopted proposed protective measures. European 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 2026-09-24. How the record is made

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