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.
The comments were made during a hearing with Julie Sinnamon, chair of an independent oversight group tasked with overseeing change management.
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
Raco president Commandant Martin Ryan described the decline in personnel numbers as 'stark and very alarming'
Plans follow 2022 report that found Defence Forces not equipped to perform their role
The policy proposals will lead to high level structural changes in the Defence Forces (File: RollingNews.ie)
IRISH DEFENCE FORCES Chief of Staff Lt Gen Sean CLancy with Tánaiste Micheál Martin.
DAVID O'DOWD Former Defence Forces Ombudsman Paulyn Marrinan-Quinn speaking at PDFORRA event today.
The PDFORRA conference is taking place in Trim, Co Meath.
‘No more do the young people of Ireland believe the Defence Forces can sustain the basic hierarchy of human needs,’ PDForra meeting told
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
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
Gerard Guinan, who is the General Secretary of PDFORRA, was speaking ahead of their annual delegate conference in Trim.
"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.”
Robin Schiller
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
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.
Members of PDFORRA will convene in the Knightsbrook Hotel in Co Meath over the next three days (File pic: RollingNews)
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
Shane Kearney was injured in the shooting incident which left 24-year-old Private Sean Rooney dead.
All three service branches of the Defence Forces are understaffed, according to new figures detailing the shortfall in each. File picture: Mark Stedman/RollingNews
More than 150 Irish citizens in Sudan seek help as evacuation operation in Khartoum at ‘highly sensitive’ stage
A spokesperson for the Department of Foreign Affairs said that 'every effort is being made to assist' the Irish citizens in Sudan. Picture: AP Photo/Marwan Ali
The operation to evacuate Irish citizens from Sudan is now under way, with members of the Defence Forces being mobilised to travel to the region in the coming hours.
Col Campion remarked that the officer’s conduct was “entirely unacceptable” and represented a breach of the standards of discipline expected of members of the Defence Forces. Photo: Collins