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  • RIP Pte Patrick Conlon

    Tragic news, RIP,

    . Soldier dies in accident at Dublin barracks

    The soldier fell from a height at McKee Barracks in the early hours of the morning.

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    McKee Barracks in Dublin (File photo)
    Image: Google Maps
    A 32-YEAR-OLD SOLDIER has died after falling from a height at a military barracks in Dublin in the early hours of this morning.
    Gardaí and the military police are investigating the incident which the Defence Forces says was a tragic accident at McKee Barracks on Blackhorse Avenue in Dublin 7.
    Private Patrick Conlon was pronounced dead at the nearby Mater Hospital at 2.10am shortly after the fall.
    Private Conlon was based in the 28th Infantry Batallion in Donegal and had an address at Cooloney in Sligo.
    The Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces Lieutenant General Seán McCann extended his sympathies to Private Conlon’s family and friends.
    Defence Forces personnel support and chaplaincy services have been in contact with the soldier’s next of kin. A spokesperson said their thoughts and prayers are with the family.
    Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
    Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
    The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere***
    The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
    The best lack all conviction, while the worst
    Are full of passionate intensity.

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    RIP

    condolences to the family and his colleagues.
    "It is a general popular error to imagine that loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for it's welfare" Edmund Burke

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    • #3
      RIP.
      Deepest sympathies to his family,Friends and colleagues.
      "Let us be clear about three facts. First, all battles and all wars are won in the end by the infantryman. Secondly, the infantryman always bears the brunt. His casualties are heavier, he suffers greater extremes of discomfort and fatigue than the other arms. Thirdly, the art of the infantryman is less stereotyped and far harder to acquire in modern war than that of any other arm." ------- Field Marshall Wavell, April 1945.

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      • #4
        Still no flags at half mast for the chiefs stand down in the dftc:mad:

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        • #5
          Rip
          What are you cackling at, fatty? Too much pie, that's your problem.

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          • #6
            RIP. I see that, as well as being a member of the Defence Forces, he was also a highly regarded soccer player.
            www.twitter.com/mickthehack

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            • #7
              Rest in Peace

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              • #8
                Rip

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                • #9
                  Rip
                  Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

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                  • #10
                    moved.

                    RIP
                    "Are they trying to shoot down the other drone? "

                    "No, they're trying to fly the tank"

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                    • #11
                      Rip

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                      • #12
                        Rip

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                        • #13
                          Rip


                          Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

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                          • #14
                            Rest in Peace
                            I went into an Italian restaurant and ordered dessert and they gave me tiramisu and a blindfolded horse and I said No, I said mask a pony (mascarpone)

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                            • #15
                              Rip

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