Irish Naval Service

13/10/2026

The Naval Service will celebrate it's 80th Birthday on Tuesday the 27th of October.

All currently serving and retired service members, permanent and reserve, and their families are invited to celebrate the occasion on the Naval Base.


Bigi Linn!
🇮🇪⚓️🎂

17/09/2026

This week L.E. JAMES JOYCE participated in PASSEX evolutions with Standing NATO Mine Counter Measures Group One (SNMCMG1) after the Group's successful port visit to Dublin.

The ship's engaged in Officer of the Watch Manoeuvres, Replenishment at Sea (RAS) Approaches and Communications exercises. PASSEX are designed to test and enhance the Navy's interoperability and functionality with other Western navies to ensure we operate to the highest standards in a multinational setting.

The core mission of SNMCMG1 is to locate and destroy legacy naval mines, unexploded ordnance and and am******on from past conflicts in the North Atlantic and the Baltic Sea.

🇮🇪 🤝 🇨🇦 🇩🇪 🇱🇹🇵🇱

16/09/2026

12/09/2026

A record 114 boxers entered this years Defence Forces Boxing Championships. The Naval Service team secured a magnificent haul of five Gold, one Silver, and one Bronze medal. All seven members of the team stepping onto the podium, an incredible result.

Lt Molloy 🏅
AB O'Flynn 🏅
AB Doherty 🏅
AB Shannon 🏅
Cdt Conroy 🏅
CPO Malone 🥈
AB Hill 🥉

BZ to all boxers and special thanks to the team coaches; Lt Molloy, CPO Quigley, CPO Malone, and AB Lavan.

Train hard, fight easy. On to the next one 🇮🇪🥊

05/09/2026

04/09/2026

Haulbowline 5k this morning!

02/09/2026

For our third and final post for the 80th Anniversary of the Irish Naval Service we are going to look back at Operations and Training. Again we have focused on older images from Naval Service archives.
Thanks to the Naval photographer and the Defence Forces archives for assisting in putting the images together.

01/09/2026

Today as we mark the 80th anniversary of the Irish Naval Service we are going to look back at many of the ships that served the Naval Service and the state.
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Many thanks to Cdr Caoimhín Mac Unfraidh (FLR) for the text and the Defence Forces Archives for access to the images.

31/08/2026

As the 80th Anniversary of the Irish Naval Service approaches we are going to open the archives and take a look back at some historic images of life in the service. Over the coming days we will look back at images of the people that served in the Naval Service, some of our Naval Service and pre-Naval Service ships that served the state. As well as some interesting images of significant events or training that occurred in the Navy over the last 80 years. In general, the focus will be on older images and events that occurred. Many thanks to the Defence Forces archives and the Naval service photographer for access to the images.

Today the photos are all about the people that served.

28/08/2026

This week the Naval Service conducted a Ship Training Period (STP). This was a demanding period of training which involved Gun Exercises (GUNEX), Manoeuvring Exercises, Maritime Interdiction (MIO) and Replenishment at Sea training (RAS).