DF Commission Report

Who knows at this point, from timescale to actual orders it’s still an open question, I mean the Daíl isn’t really functioning right now with the standoff over speaking rights, and we have the Paddy’s Day break and then the Easter break coming, how many more cabinet meetings before Easter?

The Institute for Security Governance will arrive over at the end of march to shape the defence forces and be told we went mad on paddys day and bought all this gear so you will have to design around what we bought.

*Waves hand towards Dublin bay"…"We went a bit mad and were slightly drunk and bought an aircraft carrier yes…but we thought it was a good idea at the time!"

Arrives home in USS Intrepid, complete with the SR-71, Apollo Capsule and gift shop.

The current Assistant Chief of Staff is to become the first Chief of Defence.

Brigadier General Rossa Mulcahy will replace outgoing CoS Lt. Gen Sean Clancy when he becomes Chair of the EU Military Committee in May. His role will be organised into the first CHoD this year.

The position was open to application from all DF personnel at the rank of Colonel / Captain (NS) and above

In fact, thats not the only thing wrong with the article.

RTÉ are saying that Gen. Mulcahy will have to apply for the CHoD job separately.

Who is right? 🤷‍♂️

They have to apply and then the Government appoints whoever they want, think this was open to anyone ranked Colonel (or equivalent) and above.

Pitching for the role of CHOD has started publicy. There is also a UK Times article about Harris and equipment but its behind a paywall.

https://www.thejournal.ie/irish-eumc-european-union-military-sean-clancy-rossa-mulcahy-6641208-Mar2025/

Can you copy the article in?

The Third head in the midland would have to be Carin hill in Longford,Muallaghmeen in north westmeath or the slieve blooms in offaly/Laois

L3 Harris, maybe RTX and a few others

Martin should certainly be highlighting the Ryanair business with Boeing.

But I suspect if he is to carry a weighty message from Europe, it will be for a grand summit of Europe and North America to stop feckin around with bullhorn diplomacy and sit down and talk about everything from Trade to Taxes & Tariffs, defence to migration.

The article says "including"… not specifically 4. There is a lot of interest.

If I were to put a radar east coast, I would aim for Mount Leinster, as it has established comms and civil infrastructure an probably the best trade off for Irish Sea/SW approach coverage.

Knowing the DF, they will probably stick it on military land, like Gormanston. Would be funny if they tried to lump it on Lug.

i seen in a few articles over the weekend that the DOD confirmed we are moving to LOa3. Has that actually been confirmed or is it more Harris has said we should?

As regards the rest of this year, there isn't a huge amount of difference between LoA2 and LoA3 in terms of what can be achieved from where we are today, but the planning cycle, the force re-org and the CHoD appointment all must be expedited, while Harris' big policy job will be to get Cabinet approval for a budget that may be as much as €1 Billion more in 2026 that it was this year, instead of the 2 or 300 million per year originally on the implementation plan. Thats no mean feat given competing demands, in turbulent times.

What may allay that sudden spike being burdened on the exchequer, could be access to a small morsel of the 800 bn ReArm Europe fund - if we enter into secret undertakings that we will vastly improve the security of our own corner of peripheral Europe, including the skies and seas we have, thereby freeing up cover from other NATO states to deploy east.