The Chair of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee has called on Ireland to increase its defence spending to ensure the protection of undersea cables.
US Senator Jim Risch, who is the head of the powerful group charged with leading US foreign policy legislation, said that Ireland’s “strategic position” comes with “significant responsibility”.
“Ireland must increase its defence spending to safeguard vital undersea cables from our shared enemies,” the Republican Senator for Idaho said in a statement to RTÉ News.
Around 97% of the world’s communications and internet traffic travels through a network of undersea fiber-optic cables – hosting banking…