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Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ‘We need to double defence spending to €3bn a year so we can defend ourselves’
The State will spend €1.5bn a year by 2028 on protecting our shores, but in a changing world we need much more The LE George Bernard Shaw of the Irish Naval Service, docked in Dún Laoghaire. Photo: Getty Jennifer Carroll MacNeill Today at 03:30 The job of …