Defence Forces recruitment 'akin to moving deck chairs on Titantic'

PDForra president, Mark Keane, told the Minister for Defence, Simon Coveney, "Minister, you are not going to recruit your way out of this”. Picture: NW Newspix

The Defence Forces are about to witness a large exodus of personnel and can’t recruit their way out of the crisis because a record number of new entrants this year either quit during training, or shortly after completing it.

These were the stark warnings given to Minister for Defence Simon Coveney by PDForra president, Mark Keane, who said the situation is now so dire attempts to date to rectify it were “akin to moving the deck chairs on the Titanic.”