Department of Defence Social Media Policy

The Department of Defence's X presence (Formerly known as Twitter) is managed by the department’s Press Office: defencepressoffice@defence.ie

If you follow us, you can expect tweets covering some or all of the following:

• press releases will be announced via X, LinkedIn, Youtube in addition to normal distribution channels
• alerts about new content on our website and links to official publications relating to the work of the department
• event information
• updates from the department
• alerts about new content on our website
• other practical information on services available through the department

The department will follow other government agencies, as well as any accounts followed by our audience, or accounts of interest to our followers.

The Press Office reserves the right to determine whether or not an account should be followed.

Reposts are not endorsements of an opinion or comment.

The Department of Defence reposts third parties where they are a government department or office (including international or multilateral government), or a related organisation.

Other third parties may only be reposted in exceptional circumstances and for the direct benefit of our followers. This will be determined by the Press Office on a case-by-case basis.

The department welcomes engagement with our X posts, but the best way to get in touch is by emailing defencepressoffice@defence.ie Failure to engage with a third party post should not be viewed as a refusal to comment on a particular issue.

Please do not include any personal/private information in your X post or Direct Message (DM) to us.

The department reserves the right to report the following to X and block the relevant account:

• accounts that impersonate the Department of Defence in any way
• abusive or spam posts

Our X account may occasionally be unavailable. The Press Office accepts no responsibility for lack of service due to X downtime.