'Yellow pack' pension leading Defence Forces officers to quit

One junior officer said he 'adores' his job but as he gets older and looks at his future with the pension he will get, he added: 'I may have no alternative but to seek employment elsewhere.'

A "yellow pack pension" provided to officers who joined the Defence Forces after 2013 is likely to lead many of them to quit the country's military prematurely in what's being described as “Generation Resignation".

This will leave the country's already depleted Defence Forces with an even bigger personnel crisis.