Watch: Just two new navy officers commissioned — but 11 cadets are now in training 

Newly-commissioned officer Oisín Anderson with his fiancée Helena Parks after the commissioning ceremony of the 63rd Cadet Class at the Naval Base in Haulbowline on Friday. Picture: Dan Linehan

Just two new navy officers received their commissions on Friday, the joint lowest figure since the early 1990s.

In the intervening years it hasn’t been unusual for there to be 10-plus officers at a time passing out from cadet classes.