Plan to overhaul Defence Forces structure could go to Cabinet within days

Plan to overhaul Defence Forces structure could go to Cabinet within days

Taniste Micheál Martin said on Friday that his proposals would help 'bring about the cultural change' in the Defence Forces. Picture: Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews.ie

The Defence Forces’ upper management is to be overhauled by Government in a move that will see the army, air corps, and naval service become separate services.

New plans from Tánaiste Micheál Martin will see the creation of a new Chief of Defence role to oversee all three newly-separate branches of the Defence Forces at a “strategic level”.

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