Not one former Defence Forces member re-inducted after Covid-19 recruitment drive

Sailors on board the Irish naval vessel LE Eithne as she prepared to depart the Cork city quays after the end of her role in support of the HSE in the fight against Covid-19 coronavirus.

Three months after a new recruitment drive was unveiled to entice former members of the Defence Forces to rejoin, not one of the 646 applicants is back in uniform.