Col. Dorcha Lee: Big shock awaits Simon Coveney TD when he returns to Defence

Many Defence Forces personnel had looked to the Programme for Government to give an immediate impetus to addressing their problems. Picture: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin

When the new Minister for Defence, Simon Coveney TD, returns to the Department he left four years ago, he will be shocked to see the extent to which the Defence Forces (DF) has fallen into decline.