New Defence Minister Micheal Martin has vowed to clean up the Irish Defence Forces to stop it being a turn-off to women.
The ex-Taoiseach is determined to change the culture with a "zero tolerance" policy against bullying and sexual abuse as extremely low numbers of new female recruits are joining up.
He revealed by the end of last year just 7 per cent of our military - 564 members out of 7,987 - were women. Out of these 456 were in the Army, 65 in the Navy and 43 in the Air Corps.
