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# Ireland and UK run first joint exercise for subsea cable disruption response
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2026-09-30-ireland-uk-subsea-cable-exercise-eastern-pearl/
- Published: 2026-09-30T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T18:12:08.000Z
- Description: Ireland and the UK ran their first joint exercise, codenamed Eastern Pearl, on 30 September 2026. It tested coordinated response to simulated disruption of the roughly six subsea telecoms cables linking Dublin to Britain across the Irish Sea.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Compute and infrastructure, Defence and space, #news, #reported, #ai-drafted

Reported AI-drafted [The Irish Times, 30 September 2026](https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/09/30/irish-british-governments-conduct-first-joint-exercise-to-plan-for-subsea-cable-attack/?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** Does not establish any new funding, contract or hardware deployment for cable protection, only a desktop coordination exercise.

**How this item counts.** No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0\. desktop coordination exercise only, no funding/contract/hardware change to any question. [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 and published under the editor’s responsibility without a person reading it first. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)