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- JO’T as a boy soldier…
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- POT NCO course – Kilkenny barracks 1970
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- Pots Course Class Photo – Kilkenny Barracks 1970
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- Doyler getting his stripes
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- Waterford Barracks 1968
Old pics…
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Final day of 21st Bn…
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- JOT with Bn Colours
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- Fergie on parade
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- Paul O’D on parade
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- Eamon T, JOT, and Col. C
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- Richie Doyle, Andy Reynolds, PO’D
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- Aidan T and the lads…
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- Mick O’T and the boys…
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- Barry Hemp talking the talk…
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- Leeson W leading the trooops.
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- Johnny Byrne and Alan K
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- Duggy with Bn colours.
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- The exers…
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- Owen Carroll lining up the exers…
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- Tony Foley and the lads.
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- Aire…
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- Giggsey…look to yer front!
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- Nice beret…
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- At ease
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- JB and Doyler. JB – where’s yer other hand…
Glenmalure May 4th/5th, 1974
This exercise is not mentioned in the Company history, but my notes on the enclosed photos, give the date as May 4th, 1974. I recall we camped (bivouaced) in the grounds of the old barracks in Glenmalure on Saturday night before heading out on an exercise on Sunday and then back to the centre. I have captioned the photos with the names of the people I remember but I cannot remember them all, so please let me know and I will update the captions.
Here come de Judge
Congratulations to Mick Campion on being appointed Military Judge. Mick tells me he is the first person to be commissioned into the PDF as a full Colonel.
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Tostal Parade Sunday April 18, 1954
Gallery
This gallery contains 5 photos.
Parade in Dun Laoghaire as part of An Tostal. Nine years after The War the onlookers are still dressed in “Emergency Chic”
Hygiene & Sanitation
I suppose the army cannot assume any previous level of education or social skills and so we were taught “Hygiene and Sanitation”. This post contains some of my recollections of such “A” matters and may contain scenes which some readers will find upsetting or disturbing.
Party Pieces in the mess
Following on in my series of embarrassing photos we have some of getting locked in the mess. These include people performing their party pieces which became such a feature of quiet evenings in front of the fire.
Any more photographs
Please send any material you have to Mick O Toole
Chippendales at the YMCA
I had intended using this photo for a blog entry on R&R in Waterford Barracks, but although certain male-oriented web sites have offered me large sums of money for it, I will post it here instead.
John O’Toole is obviously auditioning for The Village People, while Eamonn Doyle may have already gotten a role with the Chippendales. Roy Briggs’ shorts were probably illegal even then. Vinny Roche was an early advocate of the Atkins Diet, and only Mick Mooney looks “normal” with his Watergate Bugging team T-shirt.
Dun Laoghaire Festival – Years?
I have photos of 2 seperate(I think) Dun Laoghaire Festival parades. Both A & B Coys paraded on each occasion and they certainly seemed like impressive turnouts.
They are useful because of the number of old friends featured
