Women and mature Defence Forces members have best fitness test pass rates 

Of the 320 women who carried out the test, 302 passed – giving them a pass rate of 94.3%. File picture: RollingNews.ie

Women and more mature members have higher pass rates in the Defence Forces annual fitness test, according to figures released to the Irish Examiner.

But while brigadier generals, colonels, lieutenant colonels, battalion quartermaster sergeants, sergeant majors and new recruits had 100% pass rates, lieutenants were among those with the worst pass rates.