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Defence Forces celebrate birthday of Michael Collins
Visitors to the barracks in Cork will have an opportunity to see armoured fighting vehicles including the ‘Sliabh na mBan’, which accompanied Collins at the Béal na mBláth ambush in 1922.
AN OPEN DAY will be held at Collins Barracks in Cork today to celebrate the birthday of Irish revolutionary leader Michael Collins.
The open day will fun from 10am to 4pm today with military personnel on hand to talk visitors through the barracks’ specially commissioned exhibitions including ‘The Franco Irish Exhibition’ and the ‘Irish Volunteers Exhibition’ both of which will be located in the Military Museum.
Minister Simon Coveney will attend the celebrations at 10.30am and will inspect a Guard of Honour drawn from the barracks.
There will also be an opportunity for visitors to see displays of modern military technology including bomb disposal team equipment and armoured vehicles as used at home and on overseas deployments. A military pipe band and the band of the 1st Brigade will perform at intervals throughout the day.
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Visitors will be given the opportunity to see at first-hand a range of rare armoured fighting vehicles from 1922 including the ‘Sliabh na mBan’, which accompanied General Collins at the Béal na mBláth ambush.
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The celebration is part of Cork Rebel Week and associated with The Gathering.
Commenting ahead of the celebration, Lieutenant Colonel Pat Coleman of Collins Barracks said Collins “holds an exalted place in the memory of Irish people, no celebration of Cork would be complete without honouring it ‘s greatest military hero and this most iconic of Irishmen”.
“For history enthusiasts the Open Day at Collins Barracks promises to be a spectacular event, one which will strike pride in the heart of Corkonians young and old,” he said.
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Wonderful so no extra gardai to patrol the street’s or cars to help response times for actual crimes
Instead buying something to clean up a large mess created by the mob in the dail, NGO’s and fat cat developers who tried to make human trafficking for a profit a legal business and stirred up the race hating nutters…..
The irony is we probably won’t have enough gardai to man these yokes like we don’t have enough manpower for all the new weapons they wanna buy for the defence forces and our little attempt to play NATO call of duty
@Jacintha Dumbrell: Murdering tourists? Of the top of my head I can think of the recent murder by two Romanians of a Canadian tourist and the one in West Cork allegedly by an English migrant years ago. Are these the far right racists you’re talking about?
@Jacintha Dumbrell: look at the problem, not the solution.!
This is happening because marginalised people have been let down by fgff. easy prey for far right agenda. It won’t be the big guns getting water cannon but the nieve people who follow them. This lies with minister for justice, and drew Harris. Blame the actual people who are responsible. I also thought an all black security at the site might have been a bit of a mistake, many of them older was very unfair on them, put a load of eastern Europeans on it, and trouble wouldn’t have escalated. They would be afraid to tackle a few of them.
Just spent a few days in Valencia, Spain. I would like to see Gardai and County Council officials be brought out there to see how things are done. The streets are clean, no graffiti, no valdalism, no menacing drug addicts and a general feeling of safeness and wellbeing. Fountains and sculptures treated with the respect they deserve. And, they manage this without a strong visible Police presence!!! Comparing Valencia to any of our major cities just shoes up how badly we manage our streets!!
@chris gaffney: yes well Spanish peop is e have pride where they live , dont litter the streets, drink very little beer and can enjoy themselves without getting drunk or doing drugs
@chris gaffney: The lack of a lot of the things you identified in Valencia and elsewhere in Spain, for that matter, stem from cultural differences more than anything else.
Acting like a scümb*g in Spain is socially unacceptable, but in many parts of Ireland, especially in Dublin, it is not only viewed as socially acceptable, it is also embraced as a group identity.
The vast majority of the people engaging in the aggressive and often violent anti-immigrant protests in Ireland that prompted this purchase of water cannons, not only don’t have jobs to go to, they wouldn’t work if their lives depended on it.
@Michale Kane: OPW Rumours have it. Each vehicle is apparently costing the taxpayer between 336k and 1.4 million. Personally, I don’t know where they are getting those figures from.
If this shower of piigs in government would do the right thing by the people who elected them there would be no need for the stasi..sorry I meant gardai to need water cannons.
Gardaí need to purchase more gardaí. They won’t be allowed use them cannons in case they hurt some young hooligan, like they’re not allowed intercept bike thieves. The powers that be actively ignoring crime.
@Pat Hazzard: they need to add indelible dye to the water to help identify the agitators when they try to slip away, having incited the gullible mob and the assorted dole-suckers to cause damage.
@John Flanagan: We just need Garda to allowed Police like in other countries . Too much red tape . Example a person is driving a scrambler bike around a housing estate at speed with no helmet and kids present the Garda cannot touch him . In other countries the police would ram him off the bike , the consequences of that is the Garda would face charges . It’s madness .
@John Flanagan: law needs changing, if 13 year old is caught in a stolen car, they should be tried in adult court. If convicted before 18, it should carry over to adulthood. They need to learn their crimes will be punished.
Slipping further & further into an Authoritarian State under this Govt. Drew Harris & Helen Mc Entee lost control of Law & Order, instead of having active policing on the ground, it’s all about hammering people into submission with batons & water cannons. I wonder how many people out protesting peacefully will be hit & injured by these water cannons. Mc Entee is intent on destroying free speech & the right to protest, meanwhile Law & Order under her watch has broken down in every city, town & village across the country.
So they are in the process of purchasing 2 water canon vehicles from an overseas Police force for around €500,000 for the pair…. cheap at the price when you compare it to bike shelters
@MIchael Costello:
Now if only Shin Fein bring that money they laundered to the UK back to Ireland pay there tax on it just like the little people do, and that will cover the cost of the Gardas Mobile power washers
@Peter Byrne:the old “why don’t you run” generic blah blah comment… how far will you get in politics if you upset the gravy train? Not far is your answer
It’s not the Gardai anymore, they’re PSNI shoe in’s, the RIC is back and paddy is again the target. Fudge all you west brits cheering this on from the sidelines, same people whos ancestors sat by in their proddy towns while the paddy starved to death during the famine. You don’t even know who you truly are do ya’s?
Probably in storage 95% of the time. I’m not sure if they can be used for anything else. They could park them in the bike shed or the security hut, I suppose, to save storage costs. No extra garda or nurses, doctors, etc, but we will have these essentials.
@Freda Peeple: Very True, I personally blame the Greedy Greens and Helen McEntee for their incompetence at leaving the gate open and flooding the country with undocumented males.
My question is Where’s all their wives and children?
While everyone gets excited another deflection, for drew Harris, and helen mc entee,
Doing his dirty work, the riot would have even started, if he hadn’t taken guards off the site, leaving workers with no protection.
Where are the guards on the street doing half-hour checks that lasted about a week.
Drew needs to go. The guards that were there stood idly by watching,or moving a few barriers instead of crowd control.
Fill them with poo-pee water and make sure the guys carrying our beloved flag, and their mates with the Union Jack beside them, are first to have a wash.
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