Thousands mark Collins’s birthday

Many schoolchildren from the city and county marvelled at the change in fashion of military equipment on display, from Collins’s 1922 armoured car Sliabh na mBan to the present day €1m Mooag armoured personnel carriers.
The 1st Brigade, under the command of Brigadier General Derry Fitzgerald, put on a display of military prowess in the parade ground and soldiers showed fascinated children a wide variety of weaponry.