The former Irish Naval Service patrol ship, the LÉ Aisling, was sold to one of the participants in the civil war in Libya last year in breach of a UN arms embargo, the UN Security Council has been told. The State sold the offshore patrol vessel for €110,000 to the Dutch company. The details of what happened to the former Irish naval vessel are set out in a report just filed by the Expert Panel on Libya to the UN Security Council. She said the rescue missions in the Mediterranean had been suspended earlier this year and there were currently no plans for the Irish naval service to resume deployment there. The department had not been contacted by the expert panel about the former Irish naval vessel, she said.

Source: The Irish Times December 12, 2019 04:52 UTC