200 British Military Personnel At Dublin Port This Weekend

British Navy ship Somerset is docked at Dublin Port over the weekend, the socialist republican Anti-Imperialist Action (AIA) has said. It has a crew of about 200 British military personnel. The presence of the British navy on Irish waters is a common sight these days, as joint maritime exercises are undertaken, which has been described as “hugely important” by both governments, on the back of a memorandum of understanding on defence signed in 2015. 

However, as the AIA has pointed out, the real motive behind these joint exercises is not the gaslighting of some threat from Russia, but the “Free State’s continuous cosying up and attempting to normalise the British Occupation of Ireland and the unwanted presence of NATO, ” adding that “the ship, with a crew of 200 armed military will be given shore leave and will likely be found getting drunk in nearby pubs such as Johnny Ronans’s The Bottle Boy or the nearby Ferryman or Dockers Pub as they have in previous occasions”.  

The forces of the Crown, the illegitimate power occupying the 6 counties of Ireland, are welcomed with open arms by FF/FG. “It is also likely these terrorists will be present in civilian clothes in city centre areas such as Temple Bar. We urge the public in Dublin to be vigilant to the presence of these terrorists who serve in the military that continues to illegally occupy and partition our country, “ AIA said, concluding that “For as long as the illegal occupation and oration of Ireland continues, the Revolutionary Republican Resistance will fight against it”. 

The news comes as the FF/FG government is continuing to accelerate its drift towards militarisation, joining NATO and war-mongering, with the imminent attempt to abolish the triple lock as the starting point for the normalization of militarism.