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Thinking of joining the RDF

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    #182
    John_D80
    Registered Users Posts: 3,539 ✭✭✭John_D80


    jamesl121 wrote: »
    Well lads i was just thinking about join the RDF, but can u join if you have a Criminal Record :confused: can us let me no really appreciate.:)
    Turbine wrote: »
    No.


    Turbine is incorrect on this one James. There is a common misconception that any conviction would exclude you from the Defence Forces but this most definitely NOT the case.

    Each applicant is put through a garda vetting process. Whether or not you're conviction will hinder your application depends entirely on the crime you committed. More serious crimes, like theft, assault etc would be a certain bar to your joining. But each application is considered individually.


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    #183
    62 Reserve Battalion
    Registered Users Posts: 29 ✭62 Reserve Battalion


    jamesl121 wrote: »
    Well lads i was just thinking about join the RDF, but can u join if you have a Criminal Record :confused: can us let me no really appreciate.:)
    Depends on the Criminal Act but very likely no.


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    #184
    Fenian Army
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭Fenian Army


    Lads a friend was talking about joining but he wears glasses and I was saying to him that you have to have very good eyesight to join?


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    #185
    Fenian Army
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭Fenian Army


    On the faq it says that serious convictions in a civil or the special criminal court (the 'RA court) means you are uneligable


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    #186
    John_D80
    Registered Users Posts: 3,539 ✭✭✭John_D80


    Fenian Army wrote: »
    Lads a friend was talking about joining but he wears glasses and I was saying to him that you have to have very good eyesight to join?

    The exact eyesight requirements are availabe on military.ie

    It doesn't specify RDF but i'm 99% sure its the same for the Reserve as it is for the PDF. Its actually a lot more lenient than you'd think and the vision is tested aided and unaided ie: with and without glasses afaik.


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    #187
    CIGANO
    Registered Users Posts: 77 ✭✭CIGANO


    Fenian Army wrote: »
    Lads a friend was talking about joining but he wears glasses and I was saying to him that you have to have very good eyesight to join?

    His eyesight would need to be seriously bad to prevent him from joining. But if he is colour blind he will not be allowed to join.


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    #188
    John_D80
    Registered Users Posts: 3,539 ✭✭✭John_D80


    Fenian Army wrote: »
    ....... the special criminal court (the 'RA court) ........

    facepalm.jpg


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    #189
    Fenian Army
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭Fenian Army


    John_D80 wrote: »
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    Thats what it was set up for... Whats your problem that you have to call me "****ing retarded" for pointing out to people, who mightn't know, what the court is for?


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    #190
    Fenian Army
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭Fenian Army


    CIGANO wrote: »
    His eyesight would need to be seriously bad to prevent him from joining. But if he is colour blind he will not be allowed to join.
    Ah he just has a lazy eye, perfect vision in one, approx 60/70% in the other

    lol and I was telling him he was fecked!


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    #191
    John_D80
    Registered Users Posts: 3,539 ✭✭✭John_D80


    Never said you were retarded. Just your statement. ie: The 'RA' court. A bit 1980's wasn't it? :D


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    #192
    goldie fish
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,195 ✭✭✭goldie fish


    The Special crimanal court is used for prosecution of all sorts of scumbag criminals. Not just the Ra.


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    #193
    Donny5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,827 ✭✭✭Donny5


    goldie fish wrote: »
    The Special crimanal court is used for prosecution of all sorts of scumbag criminals. Not just the Ra.

    In modern times, it can only be used in alleged terrorist or organised crime cases, so not quite all sorts. Back in the day, Dev used it against people who broke rationing laws during the Emergency.


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    #194
    goldie fish
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,195 ✭✭✭goldie fish


    Yerra you are trying to make the scum out to be special.


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    #195
    John_D80
    Registered Users Posts: 3,539 ✭✭✭John_D80


    Donny5 wrote: »
    In modern times, it can only be used in alleged terrorist or organised crime cases, so not quite all sorts. Back in the day, Dev used it against people who broke rationing laws during the Emergency.

    I could be wrong but to the best of my knowledge, the special criminal court only came into existence in the mid 70's. Open to correction on this though.


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    #196
    goldie fish
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,195 ✭✭✭goldie fish


    John_D80 wrote: »
    I could be wrong but to the best of my knowledge, the special criminal court only came into existence in the mid 70's. Open to correction on this though.

    No, they were established by OASA 1939.
    http://www.courts.ie/courts.ie/Library3.nsf/pagecurrent/41C06A30E5FEDA7B80256D870050508C
    However the courts were not enacted until 1972. So yes and no.


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    #197
    Donny5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,827 ✭✭✭Donny5


    goldie fish wrote: »
    However the courts were not enacted until 1972. So yes and no.

    That's not true. The current incarnation of the SCC was established in 1972, alright, but there were special courts during the emergency and all through the troubles.


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    #198
    bernardamaac.
    Registered Users Posts: 363 ✭✭bernardamaac.


    regnar wrote: »
    Firstly let we just say that whoever is going on about "its a laugh with some cheap drink and guns" lark to kindly shut their word hole! the reserve is NOT like that! Most of the time any good unit are training hard in their retrospective fields of expertese! for example my unit are allways doing tatics! Platoon and section in attacks! Drills drills and more drills! this stigma that the word f.c.á invokes is just sickining! here we are giving up OUR free time to train for an eventuallity the we hopoe we never have to do! and we dont get much respect for it either! the way things are going we will be a totally new force in a few years.....

    if your interested in joining then look up www.military.ie under the reserve section....

    Dont listen to these muppets go on about how cushy it is and how you get paid to drink cheap beer and shoot stuff! if you join under that impression your gona have to deal with the shock of change later on....
    Then im guessing this wouldnt prepare anyone for joining the ffl ?:L


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    #199
    bernardamaac.
    Registered Users Posts: 363 ✭✭bernardamaac.


    Calhoun wrote: »
    What you think contacts are?? I can see well enough myself without them. What do they do in the american army btw? You see them all in pics ect with glasses on. If i was in a situation were the would break anyway id probably be hurt quite a bit. In all the time i have had my glasses and the **** ive done with them.

    The Corporal basicly had power trip. Hes playing army. Thought he was cool. The night i was brought up doing drills and ****. I obviosly hadnt been there before so the assumption i would know what i was doing is stupid.

    How is it stressful when all you do for about 2 hours is smoke. They stressing over getting cancer? Anyway the prospects of going down the curragh were the real PDF think your a walking joke could be quite annoying. Didn't some guy sue a while ago cause someone from the PDF threw a gas grenade into a RDF barracks. The guy that sued had reall bad asmha
    Join the french foreign legion then :)


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    #200
    Calhoun
    Registered Users Posts: 7,447 ✭✭✭Calhoun


    bernardamaac. wrote: »
    Join the french foreign legion then :)

    How about you respond to a post that isnt 7 years old :):D


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    #201
    bernardamaac.
    Registered Users Posts: 363 ✭✭bernardamaac.


    Calhoun wrote: »
    How about you respond to a post that isnt 7 years old :):D

    Quick response happy :::D:cool:


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