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2024 has gotten off to a flying start at Shannon Airport for the new recruits to the airport’s Police and Fire Service (APFS), who were selected following an exhaustive process which saw applicants being whittled down from over 150 to 11.

Seven serving Irish Defence Forces’ personnel marched through Athlone in recent times on a fundraising expedition for two Irish charities.

Irish Defence Forces members to walk 129 miles across Ireland over four days to raise vital funds for ONE and the Irish Cancer Society

Irish defence forces aircraft and shis were called into action this week off the Galway coast after being alerted to the presence of two Russian Government vessels sailing in the area of the recently-laid Galway to Iceland communications subsea cable.

Athlone native, Lavinia Connell, and her partner, Jason Hassett, both of whom are members of the Irish Defence Forces, are hoping that their collective years of army experience will prove beneficial as they prepare to ascend the world’s tallest freestanding mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro.

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“Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy,” Henry Kissinger once said, and any objective reader of Signal, the magazine of the Irish Commissioned Officers Association, might find it hard to disagree.

Supreme Commander of the Defence Forces, President Michael D Higgins, this week welcomed a small group to Aras an Uachtarán where he presented serving members with Defence Forces Values Awards.

The ONE Fuchsia Flag was raised by the Cathaoirleach of Mayo County Council, Cllr Michael Smyth, at the front of Áras an Chontae on Friday, September 1 and will fly until October 1 in support of veterans of the Irish Defence Forces.