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Budget Press Con 2024
Press Release - Record allocation of €1.35 billion in Defence funding in Budget 2025

Featured stories

  • Department of Defence awards €76 million contract for modern radio system for the Defence Forces
    Department of Defence awards €76 million contract for modern radio system for the Defence Forces

    The new systems are to be supplied by Thales Group

  • Tánaiste and Minister for Defence Micheál Martin welcomes the publication of the Strategic Framework Update Report
    Tánaiste and Minister for Defence Micheál Martin welcomes the publication of the Strategic Framework ...

    The priority of this transformation is cultural change above all else

  • Remarks by the Tánaiste at the launch of the Be Summer Ready 2024 Campaign
    Remarks by the Tánaiste at the launch of the Be Summer Ready 2024 Campaign

    Be Summer Ready is all about providing practical information to keep in mind when we are out and about

Publications

  • Reserve Defence Force Regeneration and Development Plan (RDFRDP)

    15 August 2024

  • Defence Policy Review 2024

    25 July 2024

  • White Paper on Defence Programme Status Report May 2024

    28 May 2024

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Press releases

  • Statement by the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence on IDF fire on UNIFIL

    10 October 2024

  • Statement by Tánaiste and Minister for Defence Micheál Martin on the situation in Lebanon

    5 October 2024

  • Statement of An Tánaiste and Minister for Defence on the Safety & Security of Defence Forces Personnel ...

    2 October 2024

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Speeches

  • Tánaiste's address at the 20th anniversary event for the National Maritime College

    4 October 2024

  • Address by Tánaiste and Minister for Defence at RACO Annual Conference on 3 October 2024

    3 October 2024

  • Statement by the Tánaiste at PDFORRA Annual Delegate Conference 2024

    15 May 2024

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Policies

  • Defence
  • White Paper on Defence
  • High-level goal at the Department of Defence

Ministers

  • Image:Micheál Martin
    Micheál Martin

    Tánaiste,  Minister for Defence,  Minister for Foreign Affairs

  • Image:Jennifer Carroll MacNeill
    Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

    Minister of State with responsibility for EU Affairs

Senior management

  • Jacqui McCrum

    Secretary General of the Department of Defence

  • Clare Tiernan

    Assistant Secretary for Defence Capability (People)

  • Aileen Nolan

    Assistant Secretary Corporate Affairs

  • Bernie Maguire

    Assistant Secretary for Defence & Security Policy International & National

  • Eamonn Murtagh

    Assistant Secretary for Strategic Change & Capability Development

  • Jason Kearney

    Director of Emergency, Operations and Infrastructure Oversight

  • Cathal Duffy

    Acting Assistant Secretary, IRG Implementation Division

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Contacts

Head Office, Department of Defence

Address:
Head Office, Department of Defence, Station Road, Newbridge , Co. Kildare , W12 AD93
Website:
www.gov.ie/defence
Email:
info@defence.ie
Phone number:
045 492000

Department of Defence (Galway)

Address:
Department of Defence, Áras an tSáile, Renmore , Galway , H91 AN2E
Website:
www.gov.ie/defence
Email:
info@defence.ie
Phone number:
091 743700

Civil Defence

Address:
Civil Defence, Benamore , Roscrea , E53 CY80
Website:
www.civildefence.ie
Email:
civildefence@defence.ie
Phone number:
0505 25310

Office of Emergency Planning

Address:
Office of Emergency Planning, National Emergency Coordination Centre, Agriculture House (2 East), Kildare Street , Dublin 2 , D02 WK12
Website:
www.emergencyplanning.ie
Email:
oep@defence.ie
Phone number:
01 2373800

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