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Exactly. If we spend E 400m on 6 OPV's and 2 MPA's what will we spend to keep them safe and useful. If fisheries is the only use considered by the...

Does anyone have any insight into what's included in the contract, particularly around the Maritime Spec, Palletized, are they going to recycle...

I think the point made was not to be like Russia but to be ready to defend against this type of vessel. They happily sell their ships, fully...

The Russians have also had their only carrier have it's floating drydock sink under it and now has something reported to be up to a 600 square meter...

Well, they are constabulary vessels. IMO there is no way Ireland can or will want to afford any kind of meaningful defence on its own. I would like...

The RDF was nearly done for by the powers that be, until another came along and stopped it from being scrapped. The other has done very little since,...

Duties in most Bks, drivers, medical, IT helping with numbers during exercises. That's about it but members are willing to do more.

We are never that good at writing contracts. If we were, we would have got the OPVs for free, such was the delays encountered.

Point I’m making is that RDF recruitment is getting the numbers ... problem is getting them attested in some formations Many of those who are...

Short article on the retirement of the Cessnas in the Dec-Jan copy of An Cosantoir. Mentions at the end that the delivery of the PC12s will commence...

Take your point , however the White paper is prescriptive of intended development and we must keep pushing towards mentioned goals. i'm glad to see...

15% is huge when the norm has been 5-8% over the last few years. I'm talking about using the Reserve to bolster the PDF as PDF. RDFRA and RDF members...

If we converted 15% of the people who applied this year into attested RDF members it would be a huge improvement... there is nothing to stop RDF...

Of course biggest problem with this, is RDF recruitment is not getting the numbers, applications appear to be down in places. That means RDF loose...

That National average annual pay is €39k. A 3* Pte after years is approx €34k. IT pay is high but I'm not just referring to them ie a specialist....

Is that heavy enough? Maybe add some lead?

In the hands of a Libyian warlord to go along with his ex Irish Naval vessel .

Wouldn't fill the gaps in pay which is 99% of the reason the gap exists in the first place , you'd be asking an IT specialist or whatever to take a...

The problem is in the heads. I see it a lot in the older generation. The younger doesn't have it. But the mentality of being defeated before even...

There are quite a number of RDF who have the required skill sets to fill those gaps. They have demonstrated their interest in the Defence org over...

Of course not. They will be returned to EADS, stripped out, repainted, and conducting freight ops elsewhere before anyone notices they are gone.

Don is a retired actual journalist.

A more pertinent question to this thread is whether or not the current CN 235 aircraft have any future with the IAC, stripped of MPA equipment in a...

There were a number of Naval ports in use in the early 20th century, including Killybegs, Bear island, Dunlaoghaire. We do need another Naval base...

If you read in depth then Project 39 - The Gap analysis - is holding up a huge amount of other projects including a bunch of RDF ones. Project...