Army apprentices warned 'someone is going to have to die' due to alleged abuse by officer

Army apprentices who claim to have been physically and mentally by an officer warned “someone is going to have to die” for the abuse to stop just months before one of them ended their life, the Defence Forces Tribunal has heard.

Oliver Mullaney was one of the apprentices allegedly abused by the officer - who cannot be named in tribunal hearings - while in the 34th Platoon at the Apprentice School at Devoy Barracks in Co Kildare, when he died on the evening of June 22, 1991.

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