Senior army officer rejects 'inaccurate' claim junior officers 'ill-equipped' to train recruits

One of the army’s most senior officers has described as “inaccurate” a claim that training for junior officers left them “ill-equipped” to train new recruits.

The claim was made on Thursday by a retired officer known as 2LTB, who is alleged to have repeatedly mistreated recruits under his care at the Army Apprentice School in Devoy Barracks, Naas, in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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