on whatever promises they may have had in these rooms today, they are yanking these guys chains, these guys are just fishermen, who cares. all week as we have been covering this story, the back and forth between one of most powerful navys on earth and these fishermen, one thing is constant. these guys are very clear they are not going to budge. i have no relationship with the russian ambassador. i know i m a free citizen of ireland. he has no authority over me and i take his threat as an insult. if they feel that they need to come into our area where we re fishing, our protest is we re not moving. our protest is, we re not moving. russia s military exercises are supposed start on thursday next week. the fishermen say hey, the prawn quote opens up on tuesday so we will be out there on the water doing our job starting on tuesday and we re not planning on moving, not for you. we shall see. stay with us. for you
tomorrow is the start of prawn season in ireland. these big shrimp like things with black googley eyes, prawns, tomorrow is the day that the irish fishermen in ireland get their prawn quote and can fish for these, and the start of the season this month was under a very, very unique threat. the government of russia had announced that the russian navy was going to conduct live fire large scale military drills off the irish coast this week, right in the place where these fishermen troll for prawns and make their living. we ve been talking about this story a lot on the show, about how this little group of irish fishermen threatened to disrupt the russian military exercises. they said they were going to plan, they were going to send a fleet of 60 fishing trollers into those waters, starting tomorrow, because tomorrow s the start of prawn season. and they said they would stay