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'Had I been found out I would have been charged with willful damage to State property '
That summer we were due to spend a few weeks in the Waterford Gaeltacht under canvass to improve our knowledge of Irish. The tents and all other equipment were transported by trucks, but it was decided it would be good exercise for the Cadets to…
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'While John F. Kennedy and the Russians were contemplating nuclear war , we were being trained to charge around the bogs with fearsome bayonets uttering blood curdling war cries'
It is often said that the best years of your life were schooldays,, but in my case the most enjoyable and interesting were the years I spent as a Cadet in the Military College, the Curragh , County Kildare. I joined straight out of school and on…