Soldiers lodge complaint with European court over overtime payments 

Members of the Defence Forces are being increasingly forced to work additional hours to plug gaps as they are about 1,300 personnel short of what is supposed to be their minimum strength.

The country’s two military representative organisations have lodged a complaint with a European court over the failure to adequately pay Defence Forces' staff for overtime compared to the rest of the public sector.

The move was announced by Gerard Guinan, the general secretary of PDForra, which represents 6,500 enlisted personnel.