Soldiers performing multiple roles 'to keep the show on the road', conference hears

PDForra president Mark Keane told the conference the numbers serving in Defence Forces have “dramatically fallen well below the numbers required to maintain and execute all organisational tasking’s assigned".

Soldiers, sailors and aircrews are “angry and frustrated” watching their comrades depart the Defence Forces in ever increasing numbers.

PDForra general secretary Gerard Guinan said the unprecedented exodus had left the organisation “drained of resources and devoid in some cases of corporate knowledge".