Garda Recruitment - Applying to join An Garda Siochana

dkhill47 wrote: »

hey lucygoosy, open day was great, really was, well worth the 3 hour drive there and back, indeed 2011 my be the next intake but the process will start b4 that, and from what i seen and heard in templemore it will be well worth it, as for the mean time, the reserves is a good idea, as for college, if you are inrecept if a social welfare payment, the back to education allounace is well worth a look, the elligbility critera is changing for the better, it was announced in the budget but no details were given, aslo volunteering is a good idea if thats your thing. unenployent is crap, i know, but aleat one positve thing is now people wont be joining up just becaus thay dont have a job? maybe we colud all come up with positives that will come out of the lact of recruitment?:p iam trying the positive thing people, work with me :cool:

So am I am doing whatever I can to better myself for AGS so that when they do recruit ill be well able to get it!!! Have my exams for phase two reserves next week ahhhh I should be studyin!!

What did u think of the college it is nice isnt it? Im back down there myself in two weeks cant wait!

lucygoosy wrote: »

apparantley Fachtna said that will be the last class to graduate till 2011 at least.

you heard wrong from her. There will be phases passing out well into the end of 2010. Our phase (KC)will be the last big phase passing out (270 people), whenever that is I don't have a clue, July 2010 or something :rolleyes:

Murphy(Cork) wrote: »

Hey Greydiamond,

Just referring to ur comment that the reserves are just wannabes.. I'm in the Reserves for the last 6 months and the reason i joined is because i'm still in college and thought the experiences will be good when i do apply for the full time gardai.. Plus to find out is that what i want to do with the rest of my life or just continue with my degree..
And believe me, when ur on night shifts doing 10pm to 6am and dealing with all that sh*t, who cares if u are full time or part time, the fact is the gardai are seriously lacking man power and every bit helps.

Hope this doesnt come across like i'm arguing with you, just giving you my view.

Im in the Reserves too. I wouldnt call it a wannabe job. The way I see it is I wasnt lucky enough to get full time when I went for them previously and if being in the Reserve will give me good experience in dealing with the public correctly and learning more about AGS then why wouldnt you do it.
If I was a Super on a panel and I hear "Ive always wanted to be a Garda" well why didnt you join the Reserves if you had so much interest in them is exactly what i would say back. I dont think its fair that Reserves get slated. Im not doing it for the good of my heakth. Im doing it because I have a genuine intereset in AGS and ill do anything to improve my chances of being selected,. It may also be of an advantage to me if I do get in and start my training as I would have had some experiences with AGS. So you may be laughing at us but fire ahead cos at the end of the day we are trying our best and I think if you want something so bad youll try anything to succeeed and I feel like Im getting there slowly but surely.

Nuff Said.

spudz21 wrote: »

Hey lucygoosy, I'm the same as yourself and loads of others sitting tight for the next recruitment campaign:(Im half thinking of signing up to the reserves while I'm waiting.....still unsure though?!Would u recommened it for people waiting??I suppose the experience would be good:):)You doing anything else in preparation??:)Im doing a bit of volunteer work and an evening course, keeping busy!!
We have a long wait ahead of us

Ya sure ya might as well apply what have you to lose its good experience and you learn a lot from full time members. Im on phase 2 at moment going down end of April for phase3 and cant wait. It is inyense enough but its so worth it!!! Not much else we can do at the moment as tehre is such a long wait!!!

Murphy(Cork) wrote: »

Like I think every1 knows what has been said in the paper and at the conference especially the people in the system who have a career depending it. Especially with the way things are like in the country at the moment, sure there is no harm being a little optimistic that more intakes will occur this year.

It doesn't help when people have nothing to do with the process come on and try to dash every1's hopes who are still waiting. People know this already but try and put it to the back of their mind.

Not saying some1 can't be a realistic and state the facts but why constantly bring it up?! Sure being optimistic is doing no harm to any1.
If you are sour about not being in the system or failed to get in, doesn't give you a right to wreck others hopes.

And that goes for people who are already in and just want to do it for the fun of it...

Im at a loose end as well as the rest of ye. i didnt grt in till i had applied twice. its a year and a half since i started applying. im not trying to rub anyones noses in it. i wish ye all the best of luck. work is that bad at home im out in italy working at the moment and would just love to move home again

Hey Guys!:D
Does anyone have any idea when the next recruitment drive is? im pretty sure it wont be any time soon,but thats ok i am going travelling for the next year( well trying to find work:)

sally88 wrote: »

Hey Guys!:D
Does anyone have any idea when the next recruitment drive is? im pretty sure it wont be any time soon,but thats ok i am going travelling for the next year( well trying to find work:)

sorry to say but that big noise we heard when we got to templemore was the gate SLAMMING behind us

dont hold yer breath , it cud be a while b4 they open again

dkhill47 wrote: »

if what you said above was true we would be lucky, i not sure if that is even going to happen? anyone waiting on medical or have medical and pct done here anything? are yea still in suspended animation ?:rolleyes:

Hey ya, I have my medical next wednesday haven't heard anything further and god knows how long we're goin to be waiting to be recruited but it'll eventually happen guys it's just taking longer than we all thought!:rolleyes:

dkhill47 wrote: »

id sooner to to be waiting to start rather then waiting for a recruitment drive, good luck Wednesday, no doubt the will be so impressed they will send you straight to templemore:p

Oh don't you know it!!! If some miracle happened I'd be blessed!!;) Thanks anyway I'll let you know how it goes! But as you said I suppose I am lucky that I'm only waiting to start and not waiting for a recruitment drive!

delta5 wrote: »

it is happening know that well! but next recruitment drive wont be for a long bit yet! they going to get rid of this list first so training wont stop just recruitment drives will

the quicker they get rid of the backlog of people in the system the better for everyone!

.Lads these are all just rumours circulating I wish something official would be released in terms of wheter or not recruitment has ended for the forseeable future.
Im tired of hearing constant rumours and to be fair this is all they are.
Im a Garda Reserve as well and nobody in my station including my unit sergeant knows whats going on .I know for certain that regular guards dont know the answer to if and when the next recruitmnet campaign will be trust me Im blue in the face asking "relevant" people on this matter but yes a bit of clarification from official sources would be very much welcomed by everyone I do believe and put each and every hopeful out of our misery once and for all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

kerry4sam wrote: »

The right hand just doesn't seem to know what the left hand is doing at the moment. The reason no official statement has been released is bacause nobody knows themselves what is going on! or what could happen next week.

exactly!!!!

post 200 yea!!!!, o god, do you see that this recession is doing to me, i'm getting excited too easy:eek: