Fighter jets for the Air Corps?

Spoiler, the HSE won't improve, infact it will only get worse as while it's now the HSE, underneath its still the same fragmented Health Boards structures, something that was made clear with the issues of bringing it back online after the Hack, with the IT systems completely fragmented.

Have you seen what he is doing at the Border with Ukraine? You really are clueless.

Your probably right but one must dream of better a future.

Don't worry. We'll let that episode pass and get the thread back on topic pretty soon.

NHS got hacked too despite UK advanced cybersecurity institutions. We do not have enough to come even close to be able to "protect" HSE and even then HSE does burn though enough to spend some of it on securing their network. Ransomware is global problem but please go ahead and put a number needed for irish army to be able to "cyber protect" HSE.

Getting back on topic.....The Air Corps is considering the purchase of both the KAI F50 and the Gripen as replacements for the PC9M. Source: Wikipedia.

Was there a source provided on the wiki page?

Edit: and what wiki page were you looking at because this is all the Irish Air Corps page says on the topic:

The Pilatus PC9S are planned for replacement by 2025,49] The two CASA CN-235s are due to be replaced in 2023 by two Airbus C295 maritime patrol aircraft which will also be used for search and rescue, transport, special forces operations, MEDEVAC and other utility roles. 50)

In June 2020, the Irish Times reported that a five-year investment strategy document, published by the new Irish government, included the potential for "air combat interceptors".5l The speculated purchase of fighter/interceptor jets would represent a change from the use of British jets to intercept unknown airplanes encroaching Irish airspace,

Correction. Its under operational history.

the source quoted is a question on quora.com. May as well be two blokes talking down the pub

mentioning it brought nothing to the discussion.

I remember that day quiet well JFK was an enormous mark on the horizon of Dalkey.

Any option would be preference as we are been shown up now by other nations who dont listen to the ''we dont share a border with Russia'' narrative.

they had an F/A18, E-2 Hawkeye and a heap on seahawks in Dublin Airport.

Thank you for posting this. It made very interesting reading. I hope that others will read the briefing paper enclosed within your post.

Well we were neutral for the entirety of the biggest war in history despite endless pleas to join it.

A few small incidences doesn't take away our neutral status, Hitler didn't seem to have any disliking towards us over any of them tiny irrelevant details.

The Germans, as any competent WW 2 army did, wargamed and planned for every eventuality and invading Ireland was one of them. It was not taken up because they knew full well that the Royal Navy would have smashed any maritime invasion force that tried to reach Ireland from France and the RAF would have done the same to airborne forces. They were quite content to be able to hit Belfast, the real industrial heart of the island of Ireland, at will with their bombers at night. There was nothing South of the Border that was of any strategic or tactical value except the Ports of Shannon and Cork,as they would have made excellent U-boat bases. Distance saved us. Germany understood that while we were neutral, we were utterly dependent on the USA and Britain for all military supplies,especially fuels,oils and lubricants. At one point,we were down to about 500 gallons of Avgas for the Air Corps, so no air defence was possible. Socially, we were also highly dependent on remittances and pensions from, respectively, the Irish diaspora and the UK. I dont know the figure for pensions originating from the UK, but I did read that it sustained something like 1 in 8 of the Southern population. For all the posturing and hot air against the British, we needed their money, the earned pensions,the remittances and their supplies. The only thing that was of any real value that Germany ever supplied to us was the Ardnacrusha Dam! We owed nothing to Germany in any legal or moral form,not even neutrality as our survival depended on our former enemies and our distant friends.