‘I walked into hell’: Recruit tells Defence Forces Tribunal of being ‘tortured, not trained’

Denis Kennedy who gave evidence at the Defence Forces Tribunal on Thursday. Picture: Neil Michael.

Recruits to the Defence Forces’ Apprentice School in the 1980s and 1990s were “tortured, not trained”, the Defence Forces Tribunal has been told.

Recalling the day he joined the 34th Platoon at Devoy Barracks in Naas, Co Kildare, in September 1989 at the age of 16, Denis Kennedy said: “I walked into hell.”