PDForra: 'Grant citizenship to foreign-born Defence Force members'

Gerard Guinan, general secretary, PDForra, said: 'I don't believe Irish people would consider it fair to allow EU citizens who are resident here to join the Defence Forces, serve our nation overseas, risk life and limb with their comrades then to deny them through economic means the ability to become citizens of our State.' File picture: Don MacMonagle

They've taken an oath and are prepared to die for Ireland, yet foreign-born men and women joining the Defence Forces then have to pay thousands to get citizenship.

This has seriously annoyed many of their Irish-born colleagues and PDForra, the organisation which represents the country's rank and file soldiers, sailors and air crews.