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Irish Navy's new ships

  • 06-06-2013 8:18am
    #1
    chughes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭


    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/ahoy-star-wars-ships-buoy-up-navy-29324232.html

    I see the Irish Navy is to get 2 new ships, according to the Irish Independent. As yet they are unnamed so, following the time honoured tradition of using a female name, I think one of them should be called the LE Angela after our country's leader, Frau Merkel.

    Also in time honoured tradition what would After Hours call the other boat?


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  • #2
    IM0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    I think they should be called ruth and dorothy


  • #3
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    LE Dana


  • #4
    Tipsy McSwagger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,070 ✭✭✭Tipsy McSwagger


    The Irish Navy is the only navy in the world where you can go home for your dinner every day.


  • #5
    plys
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 221 ✭✭plys


    LE Linda surely??


  • #6
    dh0011
    Closed Accounts Posts: 890 ✭✭✭dh0011


    They are normally called after women from Irish mythology so probably none of those.


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  • #7
    McDermotX
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,544 ✭✭✭✭McDermotX


    Now nothing will stand in our way.


  • #8
    Kenjataimu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,429 ✭✭✭Kenjataimu


    LE Ellie


  • #9
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    LE ellie

    LE anette


  • #10
    Remmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭Remmy


    The Jackie - Classy and timeless


  • #11
    Franticfrank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 260 ✭✭Franticfrank


    Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »
    The Irish Navy is the only navy in the world where you can go home for your dinner every day.

    The Irish Navy is actually quite busy patrolling our coastline and does great work intercepting drug runners, clamping down on illegal fishing, etc. They're well entitled to their dinner imo. Great that they're getting two new and modern ships.


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  • #12
    Xavi6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,919 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    LE Salpa

    Both very buoyant in water


  • #13
    trad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,696 ✭✭✭trad


    LE Aldi and LE Lidl

    They'll be cheap and nasty, functional and fcuked when the warranty is up


  • #14
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    Franticfrank wrote: »
    The Irish Navy is actually quite busy patrolling our coastline and does great work intercepting drug runners, clamping down on illegal fishing, etc. They're well entitled to their dinner imo. Great that they're getting two new and modern ships.

    anyone see the problem here? FACT most drug smuggling and illegal fishing in Irish waters is done at Dinner Time


  • #15
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    We need to get with the times
    LE Jacinta
    LE Sharon
    LE Shanaquilla


  • #16
    BeardySi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,708 ✭✭✭BeardySi


    dh0011 wrote: »
    They are normally called after women from Irish mythology so probably none of those.

    Wasn't LE Róisín named after the defence minister's daughter who happened to have had a suitable gaelic name?


  • #17
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,195 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    As much as I usually enjoy lampooning the living scheisser out of this sort of thing, I suggest, in keeping with tradition, LE Danu and LE Gormflaith.


  • #18
    El Guapo!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,438 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    How embarrassing is it that the article keeps describing them as having "Star Wars" technology?!


  • #19
    Thatnastyboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,254 ✭✭✭Thatnastyboy


    Angela Fuckin Merkel my ringpiece.


    Fuck. :mad:

    There's loads of lovely Irish names that could be used for these ships, here's 2 id like.

    LE Gráinne
    LE Siobhán


  • #20
    Mr. CooL ICE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,709 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    LE Slice Of Life


  • #21
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    El Guapo! wrote: »
    How embarrassing is it that the article keeps describing them as having "Star Wars" technology?!

    Yeah, from the 1970s and greatly overrated.


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  • #22
    WilcoOut
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,778 ✭✭✭WilcoOut


    LE Angela

    named after the boss


  • #23
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    they have built in Light Sabres?


  • #24
    scotchy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,214 ✭✭✭scotchy




    .

    💙 💛 💙 💛 💙 💛



  • #25
    Merch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭Merch


    why dont they just get a few drones? cheaper, less manpower


  • #26
    Jester252
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,533 ✭✭✭Jester252


    The Navy needs to stop being sexist.
    LE John and LE Edward and together they are LE Jedward


  • #27
    spank_inferno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,892 ✭✭✭spank_inferno


    Nice vessels.

    More info here:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babcock_Marine_OPV

    Certainly a big upgrade on the "LE Emer" that it will replace.


  • #28
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    Why are you all giving them names in a French accent?


  • #29
    spank_inferno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,892 ✭✭✭spank_inferno


    Merch wrote: »
    why dont they just get a few drones? cheaper, less manpower

    Until drones know how to hand-cuff a drug smuggler, we will still need ships :D


  • #30
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Merch wrote: »
    why dont they just get a few drones? cheaper, less manpower

    If I was a smartass I'd say the drones are all in the FCA/RDF.

    But I'm not so I won't say that. :p


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  • #31
    copperhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 305 ✭✭copperhead


    le twink
    is sure to scare any potential invaders away


  • #32
    Yamanoto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭Yamanoto


    LE Twink

    A highly maintained vessel of no real strategic interest to foreign sailors.


  • #33
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    LE Titanic and LE Lusitania.

    What could possibly go wrong?

    The pic makes it look like an oversized cabin cruiser armed with a pea shooter.


  • #34
    LiamMc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 906 ✭✭✭LiamMc


    LE Search and LE Rescue unless Threat and Danger gets more Government Funding.


  • #35
    davetherave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭davetherave


    keith16 wrote: »
    Why are you all giving them names in a French accent?

    Not sure if serious but it is LÉ, for Long Éireannach , not le for le.


  • #36
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Anto


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  • #37
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,537 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LÉ_Róisín_(P51)

    They're an updated version of the roisin, hardly star wars and cvery old news. Not sure why the indo are picking up on it now, its been known about for ages


  • #38
    john_cappa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,371 ✭✭✭john_cappa


    corktina wrote: »
    anyone see the problem here? FACT most drug smuggling and illegal fishing in Irish waters is done at Dinner Time

    If you add the word FACT in cap letters no matter what you say it is true and cant be argued with and you need no data to back up what you are saying.


  • #39
    iDave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭iDave


    LE Katie Taylor


  • #40
    kraggy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


    2 points to make.

    1. We don't have a Navy. We have a Naval Service.
    2. Don't know where people are getting the idea that naval officers go home for their dinner everyday. They're usually at sea 3 weeks at a time.


  • #41
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    LE Whoopsadaisydoodles


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  • #42
    General General
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,900 ✭✭✭General General


    kraggy wrote: »
    2 points to make.

    1. We don't have a Navy. We have a Naval Service.
    2. Don't know where people are getting the idea that naval officers go home for their dinner everyday. They're usually at sea 3 weeks at a time.

    Their Mammies are in a boat that floats beside the one with the officers in, no?


  • #43
    knucklehead6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,868 ✭✭✭knucklehead6


    Vladimir Kurtains wrote: »
    LE Whoopsadaisydoodles


    Sexy but firm & fair? like their namesake.


  • #44
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    knucklehead6 wrote: »
    firm & fair?

    You've seen her naked then?


  • #45
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,078 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    LE Sinead (O'Connor)
    LE Mary Lou (McDonald)
    LE Maureen Potter
    LE Sabina (Higgins)
    LE Frau Merkel


  • #46
    Sky King
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    I wonder will they run another naming competition?

    LE Megatron would be a cool name. Or LE Floating Death.


  • #47
    Matt_Trakker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,052 ✭✭✭Matt_Trakker


    We have a navy?
    Woah, news to me.


  • #48
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Vladimir Kurtains wrote: »
    LE Whoopsadaisydoodles

    God bless her, and all who sail on her.


  • #49
    discus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,049 ✭✭✭discus


    If they do get the ScanEagle UAV, it'll really help out for doing searches at sea for missing people, or for doing recce on trawlers in our exclusion zone. Way to go Dept Defence!


  • #50
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    El Guapo! wrote: »
    How embarrassing is it that the article keeps describing them as having "Star Wars" technology?!

    It is the Irish Independent....the article was probably submitted in crayon


  • #51
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,330 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Merch wrote: »
    why dont they just get a few drones? cheaper, less manpower
    But what happens when they become self aware and turn on their masters?


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