Arran's View
Sure the Irish have a radar. One the EU paid for and one we couldnt get access to.
Doesn't matter how they got it, it is there and it would be criminal not to use it. As for routings, operators have to file certain routes at the moment depending on their NAT track - why would this have to change? Dodges are not allowed (although I admit that they do happen)
And three ATCOs per watch? Not sure where you get the number from but I'm sure that Sector 7 would swallow them up. Hey, another chunk of Band 5 airspace taken over by a Band 4 unit - management would LOVE that. Perhaps that is their ulterior motive...
Sure, there has to be safeguards and the thing needs to be carefully looked into but to oppose the establishment of a radar service in a current non-radar environment is 21st century luddism.