2016 Garda Campaign: Class of 2017

Dingle20144

Thread for those from this years campaign currently going through medical and physicals and hope to make the February intake...

Theflycatcher

Counting our chickens a bit:) Fingers crossed.

nmf28

Theflycatcher wrote: »

Counting our chickens a bit:) Fingers crossed.

Are you and Dingle20144 just waiting on physical's? Hard to track who's at what stage!

Theflycatcher

nmf28 wrote: »

Are you and Dingle20144 just waiting on physical's? Hard to track who's at what stage!

Yea, have everything else done now at this stage.

LandT

Theflycatcher wrote: »

Yea, have everything else done now at this stage.

I'm just waiting for a physical date too! Hope itl be before Christmas

dcw2016

LandT wrote: »

I'm just waiting for a physical date too! Hope itl be before Christmas

also waiting on the physical. When did ye do your medical?

LandT

dcw2016 wrote: »

also waiting on the physical. When did ye do your medical?

I did mine in September but I had to get laser eye surgery so that delayed me

Horza

Are the majority of people posting in this thread in the 700-800 oom bracket from the november 2015 campaign

LandT

Horza wrote: »

Are the majority of people posting in this thread in the 700-800 oom bracket from the november 2015 campaign

My oom is below 20 but like I said mine was delayed due to the laser eye surgery

dcw2016

Horza wrote: »

Are the majority of people posting in this thread in the 700-800 oom bracket from the november 2015 campaign

yep

Dingle20144

nmf28 wrote: »

Are you and Dingle20144 just waiting on physical's? Hard to track who's at what stage!

Just at the medical stage now with a date for 30th Nov.

Hope to have physical done before xmas so i can relax and enjoy.
My oom is 900-950 bracket.

Has anyone contacted HRM or the Garda college about dates for next years intake? I read somewhere in a thread about January?

bazz1000

Excellent. Got my dates for medical. Roll on Dec 13th. Plenty of recovery Time from my laser surgery next week.
Presume shorts under tracksuit pants should do for medical.

dcw2016

bazz1000 wrote: »

Excellent. Got my dates for medical. Roll on Dec 13th. Plenty of recovery Time from my laser surgery next week.
Presume shorts under tracksuit pants should do for medical.

They just make you take off your shoes and socks to weigh you other than that its just pulling up your top and taking your blood pressure so wear a tshirt under your jumper

bazz1000

dcw2016 wrote: »

They just make you take off your shoes and socks to weigh you other than that its just pulling up your top and taking your blood pressure so wear a tshirt under your jumper

Oh right. That's grand out so. I presume the physical will be January if my medical is less than 2weeks before Xmas. Praying make the Feb intake.
Still waiting on sergeant and super to call me in.

dcw2016

bazz1000 wrote: »

Oh right. That's grand out so. I presume the physical will be January if my medical is less than 2weeks before Xmas. Praying make the Feb intake.
Still waiting on sergeant and super to call me in.

I done my medical more than a month ago still waiting on a date for my physical. I met my sergeant and inspector back in September. I'm hoping for the February intake too, it seems so far away!

Theflycatcher

bazz1000 wrote: »

Excellent. Got my dates for medical. Roll on Dec 13th. Plenty of recovery Time from my laser surgery next week.
Presume shorts under tracksuit pants should do for medical.

You only have to take your top of for the doctor, no need to take trousers off.

M_09

bazz1000 wrote: »

Excellent. Got my dates for medical. Roll on Dec 13th. Plenty of recovery Time from my laser surgery next week.
Presume shorts under tracksuit pants should do for medical.

You don't need shorts or a tracksuit.

I did mine in a suit.

Donegal Disciple

Passed my medical there a month ago , meeting my local Sargent today , any advice on meeting with the Sargent and Chief Superintendent? Also still waiting on a date for my physical , hoping to make it on for the February intake. The waits a killer but I'll be glad to get the physical over and done with.

dcw2016

Donegal Disciple wrote: »

Passed my medical there a month ago , meeting my local Sargent today , any advice on meeting with the Sargent and Chief Superintendent? Also still waiting on a date for my physical , hoping to make it on for the February intake. The waits a killer but I'll be glad to get the physical over and done with.

Dress formally. Read back over your form from your interview. Mine was only about 10 min of general chit chat. And they asked me about the wages and was I aware how much I would be earning and if I could live on that

bazz1000

M_09 wrote: »

You don't need shorts or a tracksuit.

I did mine in a suit.

Are you ment to wear a suit to it???

M_09

bazz1000 wrote: »

Are you ment to wear a suit to it???

No but I had to go to work afterwards!

Sd82

Have medical in two weeks bp is high so worried i will fail

Theflycatcher

Sd82 wrote: »

Have medical in two weeks bp is high so worried i will fail

They usually give you a 2nd chance to come back in a fee months. So get training and you should be ok.

Sd82

Lost 7.5 kgbut bmi is still 31.5 and have family history with bp. It is actually higher now than it was before i lost the weight

Theflycatcher

Sd82 wrote: »

Lost 7.5 kgbut bmi is still 31.5 and have family history with bp. It is actually higher now than it was before i lost the weight

That's not massively over, just stick at it and hope for the best. Best of luck....

Sd82

Thanks. Hopefully anyway as the physical wont be an issue

bazz1000

Are ye checking bmi through height and weight on the internet. Would that be accurate. I'm 25 at the mo and blood pressure is fine. Only worry is doing laser surgery Wednesday and medical 13th Dec. Hoping it won't cause any issues.

bazz1000

Sd82 wrote: »

Have medical in two weeks bp is high so worried i will fail

Did you go to your gp. If not you should. I'm sure he will give a prescription for blood pressure pills. Help bring it down.
With the bmi just watch what you eat. I've lost half a stone without training by watching what I eat.
Stay away from the spuds and cut down on dairy. Breakfast should be your biggest meal of the day. Lunch dinner substitute potatoes for maybe Brown rice or sweet potato.
Hopefully helps.

nmf28

Got physical date for 6th December, anyone else get a date??

Theflycatcher

nmf28 wrote: »

Got physical date for 6th December, anyone else get a date??

Yea, I got the 6th as well....

nmf28

Theflycatcher wrote: »

Yea, I got the 6th as well....

Have you been to the Open day? I missed it due to a wedding. Think there's one on the 26th

Sparky_7

Have the open day this Saturday and medical the start of December,cant see the physical being before Christmas but I could be wrong!

dcw2016

Sd82 wrote: »

Have medical in two weeks bp is high so worried i will fail

I am fit and have a very healthy bmi and my blood pressure is quite high. The nurse took it 3 times at the medical and said she would say it to the doctor. The doctor never mentioned it when I was called in.

dcw2016

Sd82 wrote: »

Lost 7.5 kgbut bmi is still 31.5 and have family history with bp. It is actually higher now than it was before i lost the weight

my blood pressure is the same. Family history too and mine has always been on the high side especially when I lost weight and eat healthily. I passed my medical though

dcw2016

nmf28 wrote: »

Got physical date for 6th December, anyone else get a date??

I'm down the 3rd. Best of Luck on the 6th!

daveoc43

Has anyone got word of a medical from the October interviews

bazz1000

daveoc43 wrote: »

Has anyone got word of a medical from the October interviews

Ya got mine few days ago. Dec 13 medical and open day the 17th.

Sparky_7

daveoc43 wrote: »

Has anyone got word of a medical from the October interviews

Medical the 7th,open day this sat.

Redzer99

Past everything so far. Just waiting on a meeting with the super. I met the sergeant early October. Is it supposed to be this long of a wait?? Medical and PCT are done since last month.

ganthy

Redzer99 wrote: »

Past everything so far. Just waiting on a meeting with the super. I met the sergeant early October. Is it supposed to be this long of a wait?? Medical and PCT are done since last month.

How long of a wait had you between the medical and PCT? Do you get your date for the PCT on the day you pass your medical like they did in the past?

dcw2016

ganthy wrote: »

How long of a wait had you between the medical and PCT? Do you get your date for the PCT on the day you pass your medical like they did in the past?

I had about 6 weeks of a wait between both. They don't give you a date for you PCT on the day of your medical they send you an email with a date

Xios

Any rumours of when the next phase will be in? I'm guessing at the end of January.

Theflycatcher

Xios wrote: »

Any rumours of when the next phase will be in? I'm guessing at the end of January.

That's what I've heard too. What stage are you at now, or have you everything completed?

Redzer99

Theflycatcher wrote: »

That's what I've heard too. What stage are you at now, or have you everything completed?

End of January / start of February.

Xios

Theflycatcher wrote: »

That's what I've heard too. What stage are you at now, or have you everything completed?

Literally everything

Baz1204

Dingle20144 wrote: »

Thread for those from this years campaign currently going through medical and physicals and hope to make the February intake...

Hey. Can someone tell me the exact date of the February intake cheers

bazz1000

Anyone on the 13 Dec medical heard any dates for physical yet? Open day 17th and still no word from sergeant/inspector or physical yet.

Sparky_7

bazz1000 wrote: »

Anyone on the 13 Dec medical heard any dates for physical yet? Open day 17th and still no word from sergeant/inspector or physical yet.

Youl have to have the medical done before you get any physical date,ive my medical the 7th.

ganthy

"I am informed by the Garda Commissioner that there will be four intakes of 200 trainee Garda in 2017 scheduled for 13 February, 2 May, 8 August and 6 November giving a total intake of 800 trainee Garda"-Francis Fitzgerald.

https://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2016-11-15a.35&s=garda+recruitment

Gnr_Iver

Hopefully one of those intakes has my name on it ha

DooraGirl

Gnr_Iver wrote: »

Hopefully one of those intakes has my name on it ha

God I hope so too 😉