Ireland makes NATO vulnerable to Russian attack on communications?

Center for Security Policy:
The Putin regime has mapped out a plan to invade Ireland, a vital telecommunications and logistics hub linking North America and Europe.

Agents of Russia’s GRU military intelligence have been observed for years across Ireland charting its rugged coastline, deep harbors, and undersea cable landing stations.

The neutral republic of Ireland has no military allies, so a Russian attack would not invoke NATO’s Article 5 provision on collective defense. Russia would meet little resistance were it to take over Irish deep-water ports, occupy the vital Shannon airport, and physically control or cut trans-Atlantic undersea cable network that keeps the world economy running.

Northern Ireland, about the size of Connecticut, remains a part of the United Kingdom and therefore is part of NATO.

Ireland is a prospective Russian staging point to outflank the United Kingdom and NATO from Britain’s west.

Even without invading, Russia is using Ireland to tap into the trans-Atlantic undersea cable network and burrow into Dublin-based tech companies.

“Russia has sent intelligence agents to Ireland to map the precise location of the fibre-optic, ocean-bed cables that connect Europe to America,” John Mooney of The Sunday Times of London reported February 16. “This has raised concerns that Russian agents are checking the cables for weak points, with a view to tapping or even damaging them in the future.”

“Ireland is the landing point for undersea cables which carry internet traffic between America, Britain and Europe. The cables enable millions of people to communicate and allow financial transactions to take place seamlessly,” Mooney reported.
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There is more.

Ireland looks like a strategic vulnerability to the defense of NATO countries.  Is there a plan to defend the lines of communication and is there an alternative?

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