Defence Forces chefs struggling to give troops three meals a day for €4.20 

PDForra general secretary Gerard Guinan said his association intends to highlight the rising cost of food and the increasing difficulties that chefs across the Defence Forces have in attempting to feed personnel on the current daily ration budget.

Napoleon famously declared an army marches on its stomach so he would not be impressed that Irish military chefs must battle to prepare three meals per day for just €4.20 per person.

That is roughly €2 per day less than is given to feed an inmate in the country's prisons.