Scarce Defence Forces used as ‘festival props’

NEARLY 100 Defence Forces personnel are to be deployed at a festival to remember one of the largest shows of military strength in Ireland - by the British.

Defence Forces representatives have questioned the use of troops at the festival in Co Kilkenny to commemorate a review of 100,000 troops, which happened 300 years ago.

About 70 members of the Kilkenny-based 3rd Battalion, along with an army band, have been ordered to take part in the event.