Garda Reserve Recruitment 2024

Sorry to disappoint but just heard that it maybe June before the next intake!

Someting positive....

"To mark two decades of the Garda Reserve, our members are preparing to march in the Dublin City St. Patrick’s Day parade for the very first time.

We are incredibly proud of our Garda Reserve members who have been training hard at the RDS to prepare for their debut in this year’s national parade. This march is a tribute to the commitment of our voluntary members who work side-by-side with full-time Gardaí, committing their own time to keep our communities safe".

Source: AGS

The same thought came to me. If it goes on any longer, I'll be that age getting started :)

any news

No updates just waiting for any updates, I am wondering how they can take more then 3 years on each applicants profile,

in the nicest possible way. have some of the guys in training at the moment from the last campaign 10 years ago .

10 years waiting to be excepted surly not? Are they Garda reservists or full time trainees ?

I wonder whether candidate location may have influenced how vetting is prioritised, as some areas might have a greater demand for reserves

i say so 100 percent. i am not involved anymore in this but i am from a very small and remote area i guess. i think there is one gr in the area .

i say most of the people required are needed in dublin or cork limerick ect the big city’s and have big gaa grounds ect . places that exta help might be required.

only my opinion

A got a job in something similar. I called hr after email have no response.

I had a full garda vetting completed in 4 weeks in new job and i have lived abroad in 2 different countries. was 2 years without hearing anything in this .

I understand what you're saying, and I do understand the difference of the EMT Vs EFR training requirements.

An EMT does require to maintain functional number of hours to be continuously accredited by PHECC in order to maintain an EMT status.

What I am saying is that, All Guards should be given training to the level of EMT. It take 3 weeks full time with 1 week placement, you are correct. It takes 12 weeks part-time with 1 week placement, easily achieved in Templemore.

I'm not suggesting that all student guards need to maintain the level of EMT once attested to satisfy the PHECC council, but once you have the training, it will stay with you for when you need it.

And, once trained to that level, you will at least have a better and more proficient understanding of how to perform a more advanced form of first aid, if and when faced with the scenario.

Forget about the EMT or EFR requirements through PHECC, I just think a better structure of emergency first aid should be on the syllabus

That’s interesting. I’m wondering whether the ‘228 within the vetting clearance process’ specifically refers to candidates who have already completed the station interview stage, rather than including those who may still be in earlier stages of vetting. This is how the question was originally framed.”

Edit - on second read, I feel the "vetting clearance process" is collectively vetting of all stages, so I would suspect 228 is the number of which are within vetting process regardless of if they have presented for station interview

Thats what I received

ya i understand it’s lake of any feed back . hopefully some people hear something over the next few months

As far as I understand it, once you completed the Stage 2 interview (Public Jobs), all candidates were assigned an Order of Merit. This OOM was used when candidates were progressed to Stage 3 after successful PJ interview to commence AGS vetting and medical, typically in batches of around 200 (Batch 1 was 1-198 and so on). So, seeing a number like 228 now at vetting, knowing there were 1800+ applications, likely suggests that not all batches have been forwarded to AGS yet to begin vetting. That’s just my interpretation.