Naval service conducts 780 boarding operations in year

Despite ever-decreasing numbers due to a retention crisis, the Defence Forces managed to undertake a mammoth number of operations during the year, ranging from guarding visiting dignitaries to fishery patrols, bomb disposal, and airlifting seriously ill patients to hospital.

The army conducted nearly 200 operations in support of An Garda Síochána involving bomb disposal call outs, prisoner escorts, cash escorts, and search operations.