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Of course that's not what I believe. You should know me better than that. It may be 10 years since I wore a uniform, but I pass a working barracks...

The RDF could probably be used for some taskings to help take pressure off. Ive done a stint at the Aviva last year and wouldnt mind doing a couple...

Well said apod. I don’t think people realize how stretched we are. Trying to meet Covid tastings, which can literally be upped at a moments...

Of course not, I was being flippant. Sorry, no offence intended.

Come and work in any DF Bks at the moment and realise how flippant and derisive those comments are. Our people are meeting themselves coming off...

I read somewhere that when Krupp was barred from operation after WW 2 had ended, the only weapon that escaped the net was this 20mm MG 151, which had...

I wonder who’s brother-in-law owns the company...

In fairness those contractors are required because the AC can’t provide the service.... why? Lack of sufficient personnel on strength, now if...

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Nighttime air ambulance service will cost €7 million over two years http://jrnl.ie/4056309 Numbers are a little off there, 3.5 million per year....

Or in the case of The Emergency, while the allies were closing the stable door after the horse had bolted, Ireland was building the stables.

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Thats not how we do things. Buy high, sell low. Thats the civil service way.

an opportunity to buy aircraft that the manufacturer wants to shift, badly and get a decent deal on the price.

In his RTE interview last week he clearly called out Tech Enabled Defence bolstered by the RDF. Thats not the same as saying retain the RDF in...

I'd love for the MRV to have some AOR capability. That is why I like the BMT Etrida

And they are part of the Heavy Airlift Wing. They also use the PC9 as well as the PC6 (predecessor of the PC12 single engine utility aircraft), have...

Meanwhile in another small European nation with a Defence Dept that actually functions to support its armed forces, Slovenia has ordered two Leonardo...

Go back to the Chief of Staff and ask him out straight; does he support the retention of a Reserve or not? If he does not, then it will wither on the...

In fairness, nothing to stop a unit/sub-unit going from training parades to 1 weekend a month (I know of one which has) But then add in courses,...

The HSE has a hired-in Learjet on permanent standby at Dublin Airport. It's costing around 1.5 million a year and it rarely moves. They have not used...

We seem to be going down the well worn path of identifying the malaise that currently exists and possibly always did exist in the RDF. It seems...

And half-day Wednesday for sports...

Then how do they take Leave, sick or any other day during the week? If people don't want to do something they will always find an excuse not to,...

Come on now. 9-4 mon-thurs, 9-3:45 fri.

No more so than any automated replacement, and HPT will tell stories about the force on the deck of the old Oerlikon 20mm. It's mounted on GRP...

They shouldn’t have been left in 2013 IMHO but that was a political decision. At the very least grat should have been retained (increased IMHO)...

There was a time when doing that kind of work would attract a nice allowance not anymore Except many of those are so busy that if they do the RDF...

Much bigger and heavier foot print I’d say

Well, that one is easily solved - give them a day off during the week in lieu. If you mean an allowance for working Sat and Sun, why? I was never...

You know I know this. It's not the point. The point is that those sub-units are all part of a barrack-based unit that has to deal with the...

On a slightly related note, the RN is planning to upgrade its Legacy 20mm Oerlikon/GAM-B01, GCM-AO3 Twin 30mm and Oerlikon 30mm cannon to 30mm Chain...

Sub-units outside occupied posts: Letterkenny Sligo Boyle Castlebar Cavan Mullingar Navan Bray (since transferred to Council, Coy moved to...