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Garda Recruitment - Stage 5

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    #1682
    WilcoOut
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,778 ✭✭✭WilcoOut


    Was hard getting up out of bed this morning......


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    #1683
    ann.lewis
    Registered Users Posts: 208 ✭✭ann.lewis


    Any one watch the programme on the royal marines in the uk ? The new recruits in training ?
    It's pretty good. On at 9 on mondays. Part 2 is tonight.

    The inspections are crazy. Your wardrobe has to be a certain way and they even show you how to wash yourself. Its nuts. Imagine Templemore being that strict !!

    They do push ups and sit ups to bleeps.. they are fit defo but they get huge fry ups in the morning.
    Least in Templemore you get some porridge :)

    Good show I think.


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    #1684
    ann.lewis
    Registered Users Posts: 208 ✭✭ann.lewis


    Any one watch the programme on the royal marines in the uk ? The new recruits in training ?
    It's pretty good. On at 9 on mondays. Part 2 is tonight.

    The inspections are crazy. Your wardrobe has to be a certain way and they even show you how to wash yourself. Its nuts. Imagine Templemore being that strict !!

    They do push ups and sit ups to bleeps.. they are fit defo but they get huge fry ups in the morning.
    Least in Templemore you get some porridge :)

    Good show I think.


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    #1685
    misshopeful1
    Registered Users Posts: 89 ✭✭misshopeful1


    ...and so another week of incessantly refreshing our email and boards forum is upon us. Oh. Joy.


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    #1686
    misshopeful1
    Registered Users Posts: 89 ✭✭misshopeful1


    ann.lewis wrote: »
    Any one watch the programme on the royal marines in the uk ? The new recruits in training ?
    It's pretty good. On at 9 on mondays. Part 2 is tonight.

    The inspections are crazy. Your wardrobe has to be a certain way and they even show you how to wash yourself. Its nuts. Imagine Templemore being that strict !!

    They do push ups and sit ups to bleeps.. they are fit defo but they get huge fry ups in the morning.
    Least in Templemore you get some porridge :)

    Good show I think.

    What is the food like in Templemore actually? I'm a veggie, so a little concerned! :-P


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    #1687
    Scouser
    Registered Users Posts: 883 ✭✭✭Scouser


    misshopeful1 wrote: »
    ...and so another week of incessantly refreshing our email and boards forum is upon us. Oh. Joy.

    youll miss it when its gone...........


    NOT!


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    #1688
    mickaleen
    Registered Users Posts: 240 ✭✭mickaleen


    Just wondering, when you went for your medical did you need to bring a copy of the invite or just show up with nothing?


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    #1689
    Shifty13
    Registered Users Posts: 205 ✭✭Shifty13


    mickaleen wrote: »
    Just wondering, when you went for your medical did you need to bring a copy of the invite or just show up with nothing?

    Show up and give your name!


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    #1690
    r_k.com
    Registered Users Posts: 88 ✭✭r_k.com


    misshopeful1 wrote: »
    What is the food like in Templemore actually? I'm a veggie, so a little concerned! :-P

    Me too I'd say we are out of luck there but there is a lidl down the road. We will survive. How is everyone enjoying their first day :'(


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    #1691
    Carroller
    Registered Users Posts: 1,505 ✭✭✭Carroller


    r_k.com wrote: »
    Me too I'd say we are out of luck there but there is a lidl down the road. We will survive. How is everyone enjoying their first day :'(


    That some sort of sick joke? :(


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    #1692
    WilcoOut
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,778 ✭✭✭WilcoOut


    Carroller wrote: »
    That some sort of sick joke? :(

    Ban him


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    #1693
    octigen
    Registered Users Posts: 149 ✭✭octigen


    What days are medicals & PCT's this week?


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    #1694
    teaisgreat
    Registered Users Posts: 72 ✭✭teaisgreat


    octigen wrote: »
    What days are medicals & PCT's this week?

    I know someone doing medical this weds anyway. PCT dates are given once you pass the medical but they said definitely next week.


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    #1695
    Rothmans
    Registered Users Posts: 1,805 ✭✭✭Rothmans


    octigen wrote: »
    What days are medicals & PCT's this week?

    Afaik, medicals are going on this week, and physicals the next. I was talking to two fellas who were given medical dates this week and (presumably provisional) physical dates next week.


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    #1696
    mickaleen
    Registered Users Posts: 240 ✭✭mickaleen


    I've my medical tomorrow and was told on the phone at the time that I could only accept the medical date if I was def available for physical the following week.


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    #1697
    thekopend
    Registered Users Posts: 1,072 ✭✭✭thekopend


    Sounds to me like they are still trying to fill the class?


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    #1698
    mickaleen
    Registered Users Posts: 240 ✭✭mickaleen


    I don't know, I have stopped trying to second guess what's going on.


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    #1699
    octigen
    Registered Users Posts: 149 ✭✭octigen


    thekopend wrote: »
    Sounds to me like they are still trying to fill the class?

    Still background checks from first batch not cleared I reckon. Friday week is 1st of August they might just aim for that to notify first class - give everyone a fair chance.


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    #1700
    ann.lewis
    Registered Users Posts: 208 ✭✭ann.lewis


    thekopend wrote: »
    Sounds to me like they are still trying to fill the class?

    I think so too.
    We could be wrong but seems a bit rushed now. Only accept the medical date if you can do a fitness the following week. Sounds rushed to me. Then everyone will be notified when they have numbers from this lot.

    Could be a long shot and we are guessing !!


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    #1701
    Rothmans
    Registered Users Posts: 1,805 ✭✭✭Rothmans


    octigen wrote: »
    Still background checks from first batch not cleared I reckon. Friday week is 1st of August they might just aim for that to notify first class - give everyone a fair chance.

    I was thinkin perhaps it was the vetting slowing things down too. However, I'd have thought that they would have prioritised the vetting on the first bunch that were expected to enter Templemore, therefore making it unlikely that the vetting of the folks currently doing stage 5 to be any quicker than ours. I've mentioned it before, but the impression that I got from hr was that most people's vetting had come back. It was just a matter of garda hrm clearing it themselves.


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    #1702
    Rothmans
    Registered Users Posts: 1,805 ✭✭✭Rothmans


    ann.lewis wrote: »
    I think so too.
    We could be wrong but seems a bit rushed now. Only accept the medical date if you can do a fitness the following week. Sounds rushed to me. Then everyone will be notified when they have numbers from this lot.

    Could be a long shot and we are guessing !!

    Well the alternative is that they actually do have everything ready to go, and we could hear any day now :)


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    #1703
    Shifty13
    Registered Users Posts: 205 ✭✭Shifty13


    Rothmans wrote: »
    Well the alternative is that they actually do have everything ready to go, and we could hear any day now :)

    I think we'll find out the 1st of August and we will start 1st of September. That gives your employer exactly 4 weeks notice.

    And HR still have the next 2 weeks to do what ever they need to do.


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    #1704
    Rothmans
    Registered Users Posts: 1,805 ✭✭✭Rothmans


    Shifty13 wrote: »
    I think we'll find out the 1st of August and we will start 1st of September. That gives your employer exactly 4 weeks notice.

    And HR still have the next 2 weeks to do what ever they need to do.

    I'm thinking on the same lines. Would be nice to be given more than the 4 weeks notice though so that we can get a week off in between and sort a few things out :)


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    #1705
    King Ludvig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 640 ✭✭✭King Ludvig


    From the horses mouth so to speak:

    "The first intake of approximately one hundred Garda Trainees to the Garda College is scheduled to take place in early September 2014"

    http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2014-07-17a.1646&s=garda+recruitment#g1647.q


    'Early september'. Im thinking the 8th of september seen as many of the instructors are scheduled to go down on Sept 2nd.


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    #1706
    Twas Not
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 225 ✭✭Twas Not


    Apparently there have been a fair few drop outs and non responses as there are better paid jobs now the economy has picked up.


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    #1707
    WilcoOut
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,778 ✭✭✭WilcoOut


    Twas Not wrote: »
    Apparently there have been a fair few drop outs and non responses as there are better paid jobs now the economy has picked up.

    Nonsense


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    #1708
    eroc79
    Registered Users Posts: 461 ✭✭eroc79


    octigen wrote: »
    What days are medicals & PCT's this week?

    I know there is definitely medicals tomorrow and Friday and I was told today that pct Monday 28. Don't know if there's more days than that.


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    #1709
    eroc79
    Registered Users Posts: 461 ✭✭eroc79


    octigen wrote: »
    What days are medicals & PCT's this week?

    I know there is definitely medicals tomorrow and Friday and I was told today that pct Monday 28. Don't know if there's more days than that.


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    #1710
    Rothmans
    Registered Users Posts: 1,805 ✭✭✭Rothmans


    eroc79 wrote: »
    I know there is definitely medicals tomorrow and Friday and I was told today that pct Monday 28. Don't know if there's more days than that.

    Yup, that's exactly what I've been hearing! Maybe we could know by Tuesday week in that case!


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    #1711
    teaisgreat
    Registered Users Posts: 72 ✭✭teaisgreat


    Twas Not wrote: »
    Apparently there have been a fair few drop outs and non responses as there are better paid jobs now the economy has picked up.

    Non responses to what?? It's not like they've been contacting us!


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