Soldier had to enter river where dead sheep was floating to get promotion, tribunal told

'I feel it was levelled at me because of my physical differences and probably, if I’m perfectly honest, because of my gender.'

A member of the Defence Forces has spoken of how degraded she felt to be ordered into a river in which a dead sheep was floating, as part of a promotion process.

Sergeant Rena  Kennedy  also told the Defence Forces Tribunal how she was slammed against a wall and thrown to the floor by an officer because she reported him for aggressive behaviour towards a heavily pregnant private.