PDFORRA

Journal.ie - TDs 'frustrated' by slow pace of Irish defence action plan implementation - 30 May 23

The comments were made during a hearing with Julie Sinnamon, chair of an independent oversight group tasked with overseeing change management.

Redfm.ie - The maturation of 2,500 service pensions for members of the Defence Forces this year has been described as the perfect storm - 30 May 23

PDForra President Mark Keane says these members are facing a cross roads in their career and he described this possible exodus as unsustainable and alarming

Examiner.ie - Defence Forces facing another mass exodus as personnel avail of pensions - 30 May 23

Raco president Commandant Martin Ryan described the decline in personnel numbers as 'stark and very alarming'

IrishTimes.ie - Cabinet to approve high-level structural changes in Defence Forces - 16 May 23

Plans follow 2022 report that found Defence Forces not equipped to perform their role

RTE.ie - Cabinet approves proposals for structural changes in Defence Forces - 16 May 23

The policy proposals will lead to high level structural changes in the Defence Forces (File: RollingNews.ie)

Journal.ie - 'Radical' change to Irish Defence Forces command structures to be brought before Cabinet today - 16 May 23

IRISH DEFENCE FORCES Chief of Staff Lt Gen Sean CLancy with Tánaiste Micheál Martin.

Journal.ie - Ex-Ombudsman: Military monitoring group may have been shelved by Government to save money in 2018 - 11 May 23

DAVID O'DOWD Former Defence Forces Ombudsman Paulyn Marrinan-Quinn speaking at PDFORRA event today.

Journal.ie - Filling the ever increasing gaps - inside the Defence Forces retention crisis - 10 May 23

The PDFORRA conference is taking place in Trim, Co Meath.

IrishTimes.com - Failure to increase allowances is hampering Naval Service recruitment, conference hears - 10 May 23

‘No more do the young people of Ireland believe the Defence Forces can sustain the basic hierarchy of human needs,’ PDForra meeting told

Examiner.ie - Defence Forces lodges complaint against Government over failure to pay overtime - 10 May 23

PDForra general secretary Gerard Guinan said the Government must provide military personnel with appropriate overtime payments as 'they lag far behind' what their counterparts in other sectors of the public service get. Picture: Paul Mealey

Examiner.ie - PDForra call on government to raise 'cursory' navy allowance for first time since 1975 - 10 May 23

David Buckley and Brian Kavanagh, Naval Service delegates at the PDForra annual delegate conference in Trim, Co. Meath, yesterday. The navy allowance hasn’t been subject to an upward review since its introduction in 1975. Photo: Moya Nolan

Irishmirror.ie - Members of Defence Forces 'despondent' after report finds evidence of bullying in organisation - 10 May 23

Gerard Guinan, who is the General Secretary of PDFORRA, was speaking ahead of their annual delegate conference in Trim.

IrishMirror.ie - Private Sean Rooney who was killed in Lebanon honoured at PDFORRA conference - 10 May 23

"The unjustifiable killing of Private Sean Rooney and serious injury to Trooper Shane Kearney in the course of their duty in UNIFIL reinforces the unique nature of service in the Defence Forces, and the exceptional skills of Defence Forces personnel.”

Independent.ie - Offer proper contracts to keep experienced personnel in Defence Forces, minister told - 09 Oct 23

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Examiner.ie - Defence Forces cannot afford to lose experienced officers to early retirement, Martin told - 09 May 23

The Minister for Defence speaking to delegates at the PDFORRA conference in Trim, Co. Meath, where he was asked to intervene in the contracts issue. Photo: Moya Nolan

Journal.ie - Not enough being done' to implement key recommendations in landmark Defence report - 09 May 23

PDFORRA, the group representing 6,500 enlisted members of the Army, Naval Service and Air Corps, will begin its annual delegate conference in Trim, Co Meath today.

RTE.ie - PDFORRA conference to hear motions on hours, allowances - 09 May 23

Members of PDFORRA will convene in the Knightsbrook Hotel in Co Meath over the next three days (File pic: RollingNews)

Examiner.ie - Pay and recruitment/retention crisis to dominate PDFORRA conference - 09 May 23

At the end of 2015, the Defence Forces had 9,140 personnel. Now it has less than 7,600 and, according to a panel of military experts from Ireland and other countries, it needs a minimum of 11,500 people to keep security operations going both at home and abroad. File picture: Eamonn Farrell/RollingNews.ie