Significant rise in Air Corps' emergency airlifts  

Our Naval Service, which celebrated 75 years from its foundation in 2021, has the task of patrolling 220 million maritime acres of sea, representing 15% of European fisheries.

There has been a significant increase in emergency medical transports provided by the Air Corps in the last two years, according to the Defence Forces.

While battling an ongoing recruitment and retention crisis, the organisation also delivered more operations in support of gardaí this year - such as cash and prisoner escorts and bomb call outs - and deployed six computer response teams to help save and restore HSE computer systems following the May cyber attack.