The Defence Forces will be forced to spend almost €250,000 hiring external contractors to service its naval weapons due to a lack of trained personnel.
Earlier this year, The Irish Times reported that the Naval Service was forced to send vessels to sea without working armaments due to a severe shortage of technicians.
At the time, the Naval Service’s ordnance section was down to a single technician following a mass exodus of highly trained staff over the previous year.
Those
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