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Examiner.com - Foreign-born personnel provide Defence Forces with added expertise - 25 Mar 25
Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces, Vice Admiral Mark Mellett, congratulates five foreign-born Naval Service recruits who passed out from training in 2021. They are Luis Eduardo Espindola Caldas (Brazil), Filip Bezjuk (Croatia), Ansoumane Firkins (Guinea), Raul Muresan (Romania) and Daniels Tuceks (Latvia). There are now 244 foreign-born recruits from 31 countries in the ranks of the army, navy and air corps.
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Examiner.com - Over 1,600 Defence Forces personnel awarded compensation for working overtime - 17 Feb 25
PDForra general secretary Gerard Guinan confirmed the number of successful applicants his association had represented to date on the WTD claims. File picture
Examiner.com - Union takes High Court action in bid to boost pay of elite Army Ranger Wing - 04 Feb 25
PDForra general secretary Gerard Guinan said relative to their counterparts in other armed forces, 'there is a shortfall in the rates of pay that our special forces members earn'. File picture: Eamonn Farrell/RollingNews.ie
Journal.ie - Groups representing military members hail 'historic' move for Defence Forces workplace rights - 21 Jan 25
The Irish Defence Forces were exempt from laws governing leave, safe rest periods and break times.
Examiner.com - Associations call for full-time defence minister - 14 Jan 25
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The Sun - Irish Defence Forces should offer loyalty bonuses & follow Canadian military lead amid retention bid, soldier reps claim - 10 Jan 25
Figures from November show we only have 7,447 troops.
Journal.ie - Survey finds 73% of uniformed services who joined after 2013 considering 'seeking a new job' - 25 Nov 24
A file image of Defence Forces members. Alamy Stock Photo
Irishexaminer.com - Outsourcing of instructor jobs may breach public service agreement, says military body - 02 Sep 24
General Secretary of PDFORRA Gerard Guinan said: 'The message being sent out is that running services into the ground is the only manner by which you will receive funding. File picture: Paul Mealey
Journal.ie - Defence Forces mandatory retirement age rises from 60 to 62 - 19 Aug 24
THE MANDATORY RETIREMENT age for members of the Irish Defence Forces has risen from 60 to 62 years old as of today, Tánaiste Micheál Martin has announced.
Examiner.com - Defence Forces, firefighters, and prison guards can defer retirement by two years from today - 19 Aug 24
The maximum retirement age for members of the Defence Forces, firefighters, and prison guards is being raised from 60 to 62 from today.
Independent.ie - Mandatory retirement age for Defence Forces, fire fighters and prison officers increases to 62 from today - 18 Aug 24
Defence Minister Micheál Martin and Irish Defence Forces chief of staff Lieutenant General Seán Clancy. Photo: Niall Carson/PA
Examiner.com - Union to help members of Defence Forces lodge complaints about assaults and bullying to tribunal - 14 Aug 24
PDForra general secretary Gerard Guinan said previous complaints about assaults, bullying and harassment were allegedly not dealt with satisfactorily by military management.
Irishexaminer.com - Army strength falls below 6,000 for first time in living memory - 13 Aug 2024
In the first half of this year, 338 personnel left the Defence Forces while just 240 were recruited. The army now has only 5,959 members, some 1,500 less than the minimum strength. Picture: iStock
IrishTimes.com - Teenage Defence Forces members experienced assault, psychological torture, tribunal hears - 22 Jul 24
Other members forced out after trying to raise issues through Army complaints process
Examiner.com - Archaic military law preventing Defence Forces hero from being honoured by State - 20 Jul 24
Private Billy Kedian made sure 11 of his colleagues successfully got into the safety of bunkers when his post came under fire n South Lebanon in 1999.
Journal.ie - President signs controversial Defence legislation into law following Council of State meeting - 17 Jul 24
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Journal.ie - President to meet with Council of State to assess if Defence Bill is constitutional - 15 Jul 24
The Bill will preclude the Defence Forces from publicly questioning or commenting on government defence policy.
RTE.ie - Council of State meeting to consider Defence Bill - 15 Jul 24
The Council of State will meet at Áras an Uachtaráin to consider the constitutionality of the Bill
RTE.ie - President calls Council of State meeting to examine Defence Forces bill - 12 Jul 24
The meeting has been organised to examine the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024 (file photo)
Journal.ie - Military group accuses Tánaiste of ignoring Defence Bill concerns and causing low morale - 19 Jun 24
Tensions are high between the military representative bodies, the Department of Defence and the Minister for Defence Micheál Martin over the legislation.
Examiner.com - New body to fight for pension rights of retired lower rank Defence Forces personnel - 04 June 24
About 5,000 enlisted personnel have retired from the Defence Forces since 2010 and many have had to endure 'adverse pension arrangements' compared to those existing before the financial crash.
RTE.ie - Defence Forces lose a fifth of personnel in two years, PAC told - 23 May 24
Jacqui McCrum, Secretary General of the Department of Defence, revealed that 1,646 staff left the service in the last two years