Shelly steals a march on her fellow recruits

A JUNIOR Government minister had more than a passing interest in a passing out parade at Collins Barracks in Cork yesterday.

Junior Defence Minister Paul Kehoe looked on with pride as his niece, Recruit Shelly Kehoe, and her comrades in 124 Recruit Platoon, marked the completion of the first phase of their gruelling military training with a ceremony on the barracks’s vast parade square.

It was the first passing out parade held at Collins Barracks in several years, following the introduction by the former government of the public service recruitment embargo.