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After inital training is it mandatory to spend time in Dublin?

  • 12-11-2008 5:42pm
    #1
    mhairt
    Registered Users Posts: 106 ✭✭


    How are stations assigned? Do you have any choice?


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  • #2
    cul_irl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 119 ✭✭cul_irl


    In a word...NO. You're assigned a station and there you go. Welfare requests can be put in depending of family circumstances but don't think you'll get close to home based on that. If from Dub then you'll prob go to Dub but anyone else can be sent to where the people are needed. Stations need people when people retire/resign/transfer and based on that people get their stations. If you get somewhere you don't like then serve your time and put in your transfer request...might take some time, but all good things come to those who wait!

    Later,
    Cul :)


  • #3
    Holsten
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Holsten


    So if you're from Dublin you're deffo staying in Dublin?


  • #4
    TheNog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭TheNog


    One thing you can rely on the guards for and that is nothing is definite.


  • #5
    kevo0489
    Registered Users Posts: 26 ✭kevo0489


    Are the stations you get at phases 2 and 4 the same??


  • #6
    cul_irl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 119 ✭✭cul_irl


    Phase 2 and 4 stations are normally different...sometimes some people get back to their Phase 2 station but more often than not they're different. Normally for Phase 2 stations they'll keep you around within 1 1/2 hours from home but it's a lottery for Phase 4.

    To answer and re-inforce what the Nog said......no guarantees at all for the Dubs. Have a couple of Dub mates who got Shannon Airport on Phase 4...but the "majority" get Dublin.

    Cul :)


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  • #7
    lightyear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 78 ✭✭lightyear


    Phase 3s got their stations on Friday just gone and 90% of every class has been sent to Dublin. To be expected though, we're the freeflow intake :D


  • #8
    TheNog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭TheNog


    lightyear wrote: »
    we're the freeflow intake :D

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR7tElV4ttY


  • #9
    slingerz
    Registered Users Posts: 5,272 ✭✭✭slingerz


    cul_irl wrote: »
    Phase 2 and 4 stations are normally different...sometimes some people get back to their Phase 2 station but more often than not they're different. Normally for Phase 2 stations they'll keep you around within 1 1/2 hours from home but it's a lottery for Phase 4.

    To answer and re-inforce what the Nog said......no guarantees at all for the Dubs. Have a couple of Dub mates who got Shannon Airport on Phase 4...but the "majority" get Dublin.

    Cul :)

    That has to be pretty handy in fairness


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