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Irish Vessels

  • 06-08-2015 8:15am
    #1
    echancrure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 608 ✭✭✭


    The Irish navy vessels are named L.É. Niamh and L.É. Roisin.

    What does L.É. stand for?


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  • #2
    zenith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 785 ✭✭✭zenith


    Long Éireannach, or "Irish Ship"


  • #3
    Aineoil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,358 ✭✭✭Aineoil


    echancrure wrote: »
    The Irish navy vessels are named L.É. Niamh and L.É. Roisin.

    What does L.É. stand for?

    Long Éireannach


  • #4
    echancrure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 608 ✭✭✭echancrure


    Go raibh maith agat.

    That was super quick.


  • #5
    fernrock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 415 ✭✭fernrock


    L E stands for Lung Eireanach (spelling!) ---Irish Ship.

    On the subject of names, I cannot see why the powers that be changed from naming the ships after Irish females some of whom were warriors to writers/ poets .


  • #6
    dubhthach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,284 ✭✭✭dubhthach


    Simon Coveney's recent freudian slip sorta explains their recent naming decisions:
    Minister Coveney said that the naming of the ship after William Butler Yeats, a world renowned Irish poet, literary figure and Nobel Laureate,” will continue to facilitate greater recognition of our Naval Service ships when visiting foreign ports and set a tone domestically reflecting a more modern Ireland and Irish Naval Service”.

    It would seem using Irish language names for ships is:
    (a) backwards
    (b) won't help the IDA!!!
    (c) FG members seem to have inferiority complex about foreigners not been able to pronounce the ships names!

    http://emergencytimes.com/defence-minister-names-irish-navys-3rd-new-ship/


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