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Recruitment for British army soars in Republic of Ireland

  • 04-01-2017 09:39PM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5


    From the Belfast Telegraph.

    Apparently a new Irish recruit signs up every 4 1/2 days. Can't blame the young Irish lads. If it's a choice between wasting your life away on the dole in some grim village in the backarse of Cavan or traveling the world on global deployments with the British Army, I'd choose the latter. I hear the pay is decent and there are lots of opportunities for advancement.


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  • Posts: 25,909 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Meh, I'd sooner find ways to while away the time, maybe do a course, maybe even move somewhere rather than signing up to kill and die on the whims of politicians.


  • Posts: 24,286 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Plebbit wrote: »
    From the Belfast Telegraph.

    Apparently a new Irish recruit signs up every 4 1/2 days. Can't blame the young Irish lads. If it's a choice between wasting your life away on the dole in some grim village in the backarse of Cavan or traveling the world on global deployments with the British Army, I'd choose the latter. I hear the pay is decent and there are lots of opportunities for advancement.

    Opportunities for death and blown off limbs too. You do know its not like the Irish Army?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,642 ✭✭✭votecounts


    The majority will only advance to a body bag all for a foreign army, do anything else to advance like a course,work placement, etc


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭donegaLroad


    Plus all the Paddies are shoved to the front. ;-)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,156 ✭✭✭CrabRevolution


    Fewer than 80 a year, out of a population of 4.5 Million? Not exactly groundbreaking numbers, I'd have thought it was more to be honest.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5 Plebbit


    It's not WW1 anymore. Casualties from war are very low in the modern era (for the British anyway. ISIS may have different experiences!)

    Besides the British public have no appetite for another war nor can they afford it. Deployments these days are more likely to be in British overseas territories in the tropics rather than middle eastern war zone. Sounds like an easy life


  • Posts: 318 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Quislings.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Plus all the Paddies are shoved to the front. ;-)

    Operation human shield


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,631 ✭✭✭Dirty Dingus McGee


    Plebbit wrote: »
    From the Belfast Telegraph.

    Apparently a new Irish recruit signs up every 4 1/2 days. Can't blame the young Irish lads. If it's a choice between wasting your life away on the dole in some grim village in the backarse of Cavan or traveling the world on global deployments with the British Army, I'd choose the latter. I hear the pay is decent and there are lots of opportunities for advancement.

    You do know there are a multitude of options in between those 2 points.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,960 ✭✭✭Dr Crayfish


    If I was into all that army stuff when I was a kid I'd have gone with the Brit army too.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Plebbit wrote: »
    Deployments these days are more likely to be in British overseas territories in the tropics rather than middle eastern war zone. Sounds like an easy life

    Probably more likely to be deployed to keep the peace in British cities.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,634 ✭✭✭Aint Eazy Being Cheezy


    Plus all the Paddies are shoved to the front. ;-)

    Sandbags, they call them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,846 ✭✭✭✭somesoldiers


    Plus all the Paddies are shoved to the front. ;-)

    "Send in the Irish, arrows cost money, the dead cost nothing"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Sandbags, they call them.

    That Was The FCA


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,086 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    Meh, I'd sooner find ways to while away the time, maybe do a course, maybe even move somewhere rather than signing up to kill and die on the whims of politicians.

    You'd probably join the Irish army Instead then


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,442 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Fewer than 80 a year, out of a population of 4.5 Million? Not exactly groundbreaking numbers, I'd have thought it was more to be honest.

    It used to be a lot more. My dad travelled from Ireland to enlist in the 60's.

    Even in the 90's I knew guys who travelled over.

    I even applied for the RAF. But it was as part of a scholarship program. They'd pay for college and give you a liveable wage whilst you were in college (It was aeronautical engineering I was applying for). You just had to serve a period of time in the RAF afterwards. I'd say there are a few lads who still do that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    British army life is grim .

    ''traveling the world on global deployments''

    Places like Afghanistan are pretty grim too. But probably less grim than the damp barracks in the middle of nowhere in Shropshire or wherever that they will be spending most of their time in.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    "Send in the Irish, arrows cost money, the dead cost nothing"


    The English never trusted us again after the battle of Falkirk.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Meh, I'd sooner find ways to while away the time, maybe do a course, maybe even move somewhere rather than signing up to kill and die on the whims of politicians.

    You don't have to kill people just because you're in the army ,you know. You can be a field doctor or look after vehicles or ammunitions etc.. Plenty of positions which don't involve being in the firing line


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,086 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    Places like Afghanistan are pretty grim too. But probably less grim than the damp barracks in the middle of nowhere in Shropshire or wherever that they will be spending most of their time in.

    Grim but pays well. I worked with a fella who was recently back from Afghanistan. He was basically a security guard with a gun for his deployments. He bought a house straight up when he got back.

    Grim? Yes. Boring? Yes yes. Daysent pay for a fella who would otherwise be on minimum wage for his life? Yes yes yes!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭jamesbere


    Rule Britannia


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,634 ✭✭✭Aint Eazy Being Cheezy


    Grim but pays well. I worked with a fella who was recently back from Afghanistan. He was basically a security guard with a gun for his deployments. He bought a house straight up when he got back.

    Grim? Yes. Boring? Yes yes. Daysent pay for a fella who would otherwise be on minimum wage for his life? Yes yes yes!

    http://touch.boards.ie/thread/2056663270/1

    I read his thread.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,616 ✭✭✭muddypaws


    I know of two young people who want to be paramedics, have tried through the HSE process without success due to recruit freeze etc. Both joined the British Army and will get their qualifications there, then come back to Ireland and hope to get the job they want.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    The English never trusted us again after the battle of Falkirk.

    Apparently we werent even there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,442 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    muddypaws wrote: »
    I know of two young people who want to be paramedics, have tried through the HSE process without success due to recruit freeze etc. Both joined the British Army and will get their qualifications there, then come back to Ireland and hope to get the job they want.

    Even when there wasn't a recruitment freeze the HSE held panels every two years. Thousands applied, a few got selected and even then the HSE may or may not employ them. If they don't call them up then they have to reapply and do the panel again in two years.

    I knew two guys in school who went to London to become cops because the gardai was too hard to get into.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,111 ✭✭✭✭RasTa


    It's way easier to get into the British one too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭Crea


    Great. Opportunities to murder complete strangers on orders for reasons you don't really understand.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,789 ✭✭✭Alf Stewart.




  • Posts: 3,444 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Plebbit wrote: »
    From the Belfast Telegraph.

    Apparently a new Irish recruit signs up every 4 1/2 days. Can't blame the young Irish lads. If it's a choice between wasting your life away on the dole in some grim village in the backarse of Cavan or traveling the world on global deployments with the British Army, I'd choose the latter. I hear the pay is decent and there are lots of opportunities for advancement.

    No matter where you are in Ireland you are within commuting range to a big city and there is plenty of chances for an education. No one in this country is stuck in a grim village without opportunities to change their lot in life. Going to college to get a degree, make some good money, buy a house/car/whatever, sounds way better than joining the british army and shooting some poor farmer in the middle east.

    Ireland in my opinion has brilliant ways for people to better themselves, compared to other countries where education is way more expensive. Education here is very cheap compared to other countries.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,992 ✭✭✭mikeym


    The Brits have pulled out of Afghanistan.

    And they wont be going back.

    And at the moment they are not involved in any combat operations.


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