Garda Recruitment - Garda Trainees (Templemore)

Everytime

Hearing a lot of different things but just to clarify.. Is it swimming togs or speedos we need ?

Turbo T

Everytime wrote: »

Hearing a lot of different things but just to clarify.. Is it swimming togs or speedos we need ?

You don't need speedos but don't get holiday swimming shorts with mad flowers or bright colours on either. A navy pair of togs will do you. Don't forget flip flops too

FGR

Wait..the speedos are no longer required? That was like a right of passage/humiliation! :pac:

BluesAndThrees

Judo suit isn't a priority. We haven't used ours in months. Wouldn't be forking out when you need other things

kjbsrah1

Do those of you on the first 100 know when ye will be reporting to your stations [wherever they will be]? Or rather how long is the college term? Also the second 100 - i think from looking through this thread that the second 100 are now in the college too? - any idea when ye are due to leave the college? Is it a 6 or 9 month (for example) term?

ShiverinEskimo

It's a 32 week phase. We're due to finish up here at the end of April. The 24th ish by our calculations but this has yet to be officially confirmed.

The second hundred will be finishing up around mid-July - 24th ish aswell I reckon.

kjbsrah1

Thanks for that. There is 3000 new recruits needed not just the token 300 - but its a start i guess. Probably nearer to election time before they announce more recruitment. And that may well be sooner rather than later

gardapa

Anyone know, or can get the number of successful reserves that were in second group that started in December?

whoahya

Everytime wrote: »

Hearing a lot of different things but just to clarify.. Is it swimming togs or speedos we need ?

Im wondering the same thing. Mentioned quite a bit earlier on this thread, but its still not clear. Got a pair of speedo shorts a few days ago, but they might end up being returned. Anyone out there with any real knowledge on the matter?

Turbo T wrote: »

You don't need speedos but don't get holiday swimming shorts with mad flowers or bright colours on either. A navy pair of togs will do you. Don't forget flip flops too

Do you know this for certain, or is it a case of 'ah sure **** it, itll be grand'??

Turbo T

whoahya wrote: »

Im wondering the same thing. Mentioned quite a bit earlier on this thread, but its still not clear. Got a pair of speedo shorts a few days ago, but they might end up being returned. Anyone out there with any real knowledge on the matter?



Do you know this for certain, or is it a case of 'ah sure **** it, itll be grand'??

I know for certain. You don't need speedos. Plain navy shorts is all you need.

D Trent

Couple of successful reserves on this group on FB
Just add yourself to the group
https://m.facebook.com/groups/gardaentrygroupies?refsrc=https%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com%2Flogin.php&refid=9&_rdr#!/groups/gardaentrygroupies?refsrc=https%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com%2Flogin.php

Brownfox15

Lads just in regard to the first day you enter the college/bring the fam etc. Of your induction week... What are the line of events? Meet and greet kinda thing? are you assigned a room at first to leave your belongings or is there a number of talks or that first? Not long now !!!

Turbo T

Brownfox15 wrote: »

Lads just in regard to the first day you enter the college/bring the fam etc. Of your induction week... What are the line of events? Meet and greet kinda thing? are you assigned a room at first to leave your belongings or is there a number of talks or that first? Not long now !!!

Only a few more days !

You could be met at the reception and brought to your room. You can leave your bags there and head down for a look around or food in the canteen.
At the asigned time, folks go home and you head off.
You can drive into the college on your first day. You can park on the square to unload your bits but you'll need to move the car to the golf course in the evening.
Hope this helps abit.
You excited

Beaner1

Has anyone pissed in their sink yet?

D Trent

You might not be starting on the 26th after all
http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/crime/no-room-inn-new-garda-4931043

carzony

D Trent wrote: »

You might not be starting on the 26th after all
http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/crime/no-room-inn-new-garda-4931043

lol that is laughable now isn't it.. When are they gonna bother investing in the garda?

Xios

carzony wrote: »

lol that is laughable now isn't it.. When are they gonna bother investing in the garda?

Oh dear.... Well, the state really has our back though....

Edit/ The article doesn't say how many beds they're short. I'm curious, is it 5 beds or is it 50?

Brownfox15

Any talk down in the college from groups already in about the accomodation shortages the Mirror published today?? Same as Xios there 5 or 50 short?? Could the dates be changed if the offers are out? Hope not.. thatd be a kick in the rocks!!

Xios

Brownfox15 wrote: »

Could the dates be changed if the offers are out? Hope not.. thatd be a kick in the rocks!!

I doubt it, the article says this is not the first time the College has been forced to seek outside accomodation.

bigbean

They couldn't I've handed in my notice, left my job and have a wife and kids.

I would blow the load if dates were changed now.

EIRE1922

Xios wrote: »

I doubt it, the article says this is not the first time the College has been forced to seek outside accomodation.

Garda recruits (students) having been staying out in homes around Templemore (Parish. Sent out as far Killea, Barnane, Clonmore) since the early 1990's until recruitment stopped in 2010! Michael 'Mick' O'Riordan (now retired) was in charge of sending the students out to the houses around the town.

There is enough room in the Garda College for the small intakes. The real issue is some of the accommodation blocks were left to essentially rot! As there was no upkeep they have become run down, damp, paint peeling because they were left without heating, cleaning and proper maintenance over that past few years. Why they are currently being refurbished and there is a lack of room at the moment for more new recruits.

carzony

EIRE1922 wrote: »

Garda recruits (students) having been staying out in homes around Templemore (Parish. Sent out as far Killea, Barnane, Clonmore) since the early 1990's until recruitment stopped in 2010! Michael 'Mick' O'Riordan (now retired) was in charge of sending the students out to the houses around the town.

There is enough room in the Garda College for the small intakes. The real issue is some of the accommodation blocks were left to essentially rot! As there was no upkeep they have become run down, damp, paint peeling because they were left without heating, cleaning and proper maintenance over that past few years. Why they are currently being refurbished and there is a lack of room at the moment for more new recruits.

Refurbished?

Might mean they expect a huge increase in recruitment so :p

Alfasudcrazy

I would not worry too much about not getting in - I and hundreds of others had to stay in a converted bank in Thurles for the first 4 months of my time in Templemore bacvk in 1983. We were driven in and out each day in a double decker bus with a lunatic driver who had the bus almost at 30 degrees going around bends.

The logic of giving everybody their own room was a bit short sighted. I had to share with three others - can't see why the same can't be done today.

EIRE1922

carzony wrote: »

Refurbished?

Might mean they expect a huge increase in recruitment so :p

They will only be required then for two months.

Shocking to let them get in that state in the first place considering the money was spent building the blocks.

Turbo T

Alfasudcrazy wrote: »

I would not worry too much about not getting in - I and hundreds of others had to stay in a converted bank in Thurles for the first 4 months of my time in Templemore bacvk in 1983. We were driven in and out each day in a double decker bus with a lunatic driver who had the bus almost at 30 degrees going around bends.

The logic of giving everybody their own room was a bit short sighted. I had to share with three others - can't see why the same can't be done today.

You were in 1 of them tiny rooms with 3 others ?

Couldn't be doing that now. Sure we have a load of stuff with us. Laptops and all sorts. No way would you fit 4 lads and all their gear in a room.

Elmalu

Are there separate blocks for females and males? Or is it all mixed?

carzony

Elmalu wrote: »

Are there separate blocks for females and males? Or is it all mixed?

It'd have to be separate I'd imagine

billie1b

Seperate and if any males are caught in the females dorms or vice versa you can be expelled from the college

Elmalu

billie1b wrote: »

Seperate and if any males are caught in the females dorms or vice versa you can be expelled from the college

Thanks, I thought it might be the case

EIRE1922

billie1b wrote: »

Seperate and if any males are caught in the females dorms or vice versa you can be expelled from the college

Not always the case.

Some qualified lads too caught in female student dorms were just shifted and transferred out of the college. There have been a few incidents over the years and some scandal!