Garda Recruitment - Stage 5

Going mad with the waiting! Went out today and got myself a job...after quitting the last one a month ago thinking I'd be in already. Almost certain I'll be in the first batch but heaven only knows when that'll be. New job to keep me busy anyway!

To Mickaleen.

Thanks for your message. I apologise for any offence caused and I didnt mean to get personal at all. I probably overreacted and honestly I dont know why because normally im a really nice guy. It must be the crazy heat today.

Please accept my apologies and I wish you all the best. Lets hope we get news soon. Hopefully Templemore isnt too far away now.

All the best!

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

Your not as bad looking as they said you were...

D Trent wrote: »

Will you get an orientation in Templemore before the physical like the rest who had passed interview ?

As far as I am aware anyone who passed the interview attended the open day. I did anyway.

Excellent. Very well done! Haha!!

Eireannach01 wrote: »

Sounds good. It will be a well deserved pint. It has been a long campaign. It would seem you are in with a good chance having been called up at such short notice. Did the medical go well?

That it has. And hopefully (for the first intake at least) it'll be concluded within the next ten days, or even the next week if we're lucky.

Nobody can ever blame PAS or AGS for not being thorough enough in their applicant selection methods anyway :pac: I've never been through such an exhaustive and intense application process in my life. But overall it's probably a good thing, especially given that it is a career that we'll be in for the rest of our lives!

Hey lads, what's the story now? When and how long for are physicals starting? I heard Sept 4th for starting!

WilcoOut wrote: »

Odd to be starting on a thursday....

Maybe the 4th is wrong but that week anyway

Also if anyone's interested, it's a 3 month deferral for failing the physical with just one repeat.

misshopeful1 wrote: »

Tomorrow marks a month since I did my fitness test. You'd imagine it would be easier to give us, in the first batch of 160ish that they tested, our offers so that they would know exactly how many places they're short for the first intake and go from there with the others that are currently going through their medicals and fitness tests. The people doing their fitness test on Monday will likely only have to wait a couple of days for their offers.

Down to vetting again I would say. You might be No 80 today on order of merit of people who's vetting is cleared but by this day next week you may be pushed back down to 100+. I would think now they have a cut off day for vetting, probably next wednesday/thursday and will send out invites next Friday thus giving everyone ample notice and also sticking to the order of merit as much as possible.

20times wrote: »

Vetting shouldn't be taking this long. They've had since our interviews. It's fairly basic.

vetting is done lcoally - so if your beside a busy station or under resourced station - yes vetting will take long

ShiverinEskimo wrote: »

That's what the media reported over the last couple of weeks - 'early September'.

Whenever someones says 'early' next week/month/year I always rule out the very start so I had it in my head it would be the 8th.

I'd imagine we'll get our offers during the week ending the 8th of August.

misshopeful1 wrote: »

Tomorrow marks a month since I did my fitness test. You'd imagine it would be easier to give us, in the first batch of 160ish that they tested, our offers so that they would know exactly how many places they're short for the first intake and go from there with the others that are currently going through their medicals and fitness tests. The people doing their fitness test on Monday will likely only have to wait a couple of days for their offers.

I hope we get it before the bank holiday weekend tbh. I cant think of any reason that it'll be delayed beyond the week ending 01/08.


I'd have a sneaking suspicion that the vetting of those that they invited back for medical and physical has already cleared, which means HRM can make offers to these folks once they pass medical and physical.

From what I've been hearing, by all accounts, its the high fail rate at medical and physical that's holding things up, as opposed to vetting. Most people's vetting seems to have come back.

So this is why I think we'll hear fairly soon after Monday - the vetting is pretty much done and dusted for the majority of us, its just that so many failed at medical and physical so they have to invite more to do medical and physical. Therefore, we should know fairly soon after the physical on Monday, as HRM should have all the info they need to make offers.