Editing Rockall (section)

===Ireland===
<!-- [[File:Rockall, Irish EEZ.png|thumb|upright|The position of Rockall (centre of grey disc) with respect to the UK and Irish EEZs.<ref name="irishstatutebook.ie"/>]] -->
[[File:LE Roisin at Rockall.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.7|The [[Naval Service (Ireland)|Irish Naval Service]] vessel [[LÉ Róisín (P51)|''Róisín'']] at Rockall conducting routine maritime security patrols {{convert|230|nmi|km|abbr=on}} off the north-west coast of Ireland]]

Irish claims to Rockall are based on its proximity to the Irish mainland;<ref name="Symmons, 1993, 35"/> however, the country has never formally claimed sovereignty over the rock. Although Rockall is closer to the UK coast than to the Irish coast,<ref name=GoogleEarthStKilda/><ref name=GoogleEarthTory/> Ireland does not recognise the UK's territorial claim to Rockall, "which would be the basis for a claim to a 12-mile territorial sea".<ref name="oir-2016" /><ref name="Volume453"/>

Ireland regards Rockall as irrelevant when determining the boundaries of the [[exclusive economic zone]]s (EEZ) as the rock is uninhabitable<ref name="EEZ"/><ref name="TrevesPineschi1997"/><ref name="Volume384"/> and in signing the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) in 1997, the UK has agreed that "Rocks which cannot sustain human habitation or economic life of their own shall have no exclusive economic zone or continental shelf". In 1988, Ireland and the United Kingdom signed an EEZ boundary agreement, ignoring the rock per UNCLOS.<ref name="EEZ"/> With effect from 31 March 2014, the UK and Ireland published EEZ limits which include Rockall within the UK's EEZ.<ref name="legislation.gov.uk"/><ref name="irishstatutebook.ie"/>

In October 2012, the ''[[Irish Independent]]'' published a picture of the [[Irish Naval Service|Irish Navy]] ship [[LÉ Róisín (P51)|''LÉ Róisín'']] sailing past Rockall conducting routine maritime security patrols, and claimed that it was exercising Ireland's sovereign rights over the rock.<ref name="inde45"/>