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Recruitment is currently taking place in the Army in the Eastern Brigade, Southern Brigade, Western Brigade and the Defence Forces Training Center, Curragh.
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25 August 2010
Applications are now being accepted for General Service Enlistment (Army) as recruits in the Eastern Brigade, Southern Brigade, Western Brigade and also in the Defence Forces Training Center, Curragh.
Processing of applications will take place on a Brigade by Brigade basis, commencing in the Eastern Brigade, Southern Brigade, Western Brigade and also the Defence Forces Training Center, Curragh.
Please note that the closing date for receipt of applications is 20th of September 2010.
To apply online click here
28 July 2010, 6.30pm.
The Government has recommended Colonel Peter Richardson to be appointed as Military Judge for the Defence Forces.
Colonel Richardson, who is expected to be formally appointed by the President in the coming weeks, will take up the position which was vacated by Colonel Anthony McCourt, who retired earlier this month.
Born in Dublin in 1952, Colonel Richardson was educated in Colaiste Mhuire, Parnell Square, Dublin. He commenced his military service as a Cadet in October 1971, and was commissioned into the Infantry Corps in 1973. He graduated from University College Galway with a Bachelor of Arts degree, and qualified as a Barrister at Law from the Kings Inns in 1985. He was called to the Bar in the same year.
Colonel Richardson has held a variety of command and staff appointments during his career. He served in each of the three Infantry Battalions within the Second Eastern Brigade; the 2nd, 5th and 27th Infantry Battalions. He has also served as a Staff Officer within the Directorate of Administration, Defence Forces Headquarters. Colonel Richardson has extensive overseas service, having served in Lebanon, Namibia, Haiti and the Ivory Coast.
The role of a Military Judge is to preside at Courts Martial. His powers are laid down in the Defence Act.
For more information on Courts Martial and the Military Judge,
see http://www.military.ie/dfhq/dcossp/cma/index.html
Monday 26 July, 2010
The Government has announced the appointment of Brigadier General Ralph James, General Officer Commanding the Air Corps, as the new Deputy Chief of Staff (Operations) for the Defence Forces.
Brigadier General James takes up the appointment which was vacated by Lieutenant General Sean McCann, on his promotion to Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces on the 13th of June 2010.
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