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All tweets are my own and seperate from an official Defence force acccounts.

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Looking forward to this years christmas special by the Haulbowline theatre group .

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@Osint613 Worst deal in history

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Looks like we are going to have a JFK moment .

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@86278263789 @FineGael @defenceforces 🍏

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In the absesne of logical explanation one must assume a deliberate act .

Did @FineGael see Austerity as a way of eroding @defenceforces to carve a way for Irl🇮🇪 to be more acceptable to EU military assistance and projects .

This is my firm belief 🫡

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2016 under @simoncoveney watch endorsed by @jackfchambers who was assisting @Paschald a decision was made to hold out on the return of payments that were cut in austerity at atime of declining numbers in DF this would have stemmed the flow 🤔STRANGE DECISION

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@richardohall57 @simoncoveney @RNZN_RBX Customs boats are a token gesture to the public that we are protecting our sea borders

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Twice @simoncoveney was responsible for the Defence forces and on his watch and on his request the DOD paid €26M for 2 unsuitable vessels from @RNZN_RBX
A further €20M has been spent and one has not or ever will enter service now the 2 are being mothballed

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@RTENewsPaulC West limerick seat at stake that is what they are FF/FG ... party 1st

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@MichealReidy1 @simoncoveney @RNZN_RBX Picked by staff who went to look at a MRV at a guess as that was the only connection at the time between NZ & IRL navy at the time .

Who knows 🤔

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Where will Irish Troops serve after the Leb ?

At any one time the DF have almost 1,000 members either prepping to go overseas or are overseas or are just back .

Out of an organisation of 7,850 that is a significant gap or void .

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Our defence Forces are filled with great talent .

Our defence forces fails when people in white shirts tell people in Uniform what to do and what they need .

A cloke and dagger organisation where it is its own worst enemy filled with dysfunction.

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Retain
Recruit
Replenish

Heading towards a milestone number 800 .

1076 =276 short @HMcEntee and a majority highly skilled posts .

Now @HMcEntee maybe you should ask @simoncoveney how the NS got so bad .

Was that not in your handover file ? 🤔

DFR

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@Osint613 International waters so they can be publicly humiliated by the Israeli government it does not matter if @netanyahu goes against it he serves in the same government .

The Far right Israeli Government have been exposed for what they really are

Extremists

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@benedykt57 Why is a polish account trying to discredit The Irish Defence Forces and government ??

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🇪🇺The EU presidency that IRL will hold will highlight gaping holes in our security through nothing more than ignorance and stupidity by @fiannafailparty @FineGael over the last decades .

This extends to Civil Servants also.

Cop on

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Rest assured this was a deliberate underinvestment ,proven by @Paschald @jackfchambers time in DPER and their deliberate witholding of warranted restorement of allowances and PDA SDA and also witholding tech pay awards .

100% deliberate

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Recruitment in the Irish Defence Forces has stayed static as the military struggles to overcome years of underinvestment, one of the country's military representative groups has said.
https://t.co/5nTGe254Fm

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Great skillsets on display well done to all 🫡

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🚨#ArmorWeek:
2026 #SullivanCup

Best Tank Crew:
Staff Sgt. Jordan Ashdown, Sgt. Jose Medina, Spc. Angel Ortiz and Spc. Samuel Vo, representing the 4th Infantry Division.

Best Bradley Crew:
Lt. Colm Meade, Sgt. Shane Molloy, and Tpr. Tristan Regan, representing the Irish Army.

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So many "experts" on defence who seem to know what is wrong with defence except defence is still FUBAR @HMcEntee

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What is quiet scary is the lack of understanding by the political elite on how defence works or should work in Ireland .

@ThomasByrneTD until there is a transparent dialogue between defence , civil servants and TDs then it is all pointless really .

[Thomas Byrne @ThomasByrneTD]

Reforming the Triple-Lock will have no impact on Ireland’s policy of military neutrality.

Speaking in the Dáil today, I spoke of the need to ensure that Ireland can make our own sovereign decisions, in the interests of maintaining our proud peacekeeping tradition abroad.

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