Delays, failures, and 'half-funded' plans put Ireland's security in jeopardy

Despite all the incidents and all the analysis and warnings, we don’t have an actual structure in Ireland to counter hybrid threats

Though a vague concept for many people to penetrate, hybrid activity is seen as a range of aggressive state activity short of actual war.

In the days after the Government published an updated plan to implement an agreed investment plan for the Defence Forces, a minister gave an interview saying it was likely that Ireland would be targeted by Russian hybrid attacks during the upcoming presidency of the EU.

But, in the updated implementation plan, two linked recommendations on developing structures to counter hybrid warfare, that were made in the Commission on the Defence Forces report four years ago, were kicked further down the road.