PDForra conference to discuss Defence Forces staff stress

While pay and conditions will dominate PDForra’s annual conference, so too will overburdening stress within the ranks of the Defence Forces caused by manpower shortages.

The conference, which gets under way in Tullow, Co Carlow, today, will hear delegates representing 6,500 enlisted personnel in the Army, Naval Service, and Air Corps discuss 40 motions, one of which calls for an end to “demeaning tasks” such as enlisted personnel having to serve officers their meals.