Retired lieutenant colonel: ‘Neglect of Defence Forces exposes Ireland’

The Government has been accused of running down the Defence Forces to such an extent that if there was a major security crisis, the country has been left “woefully unprepared, dramatically undefended, and shamefully exposed.”

That’s according to a retired lieutenant colonel, who provided the keynote address at a protest in Cork organised by former members of the Defence Forces and the lobby group WPDF (Wives & Partners of the Defence Forces).