Closing barracks not the answer

I WRITE to you to highlight a great injustice imposed on a group of loyal and diligent servants of this state.

I refer to the hundreds of soldiers whose stations are under imminent threat of closure.The barracks involved are Clonmel, Cavan and Mullingar. The Government stated that no announcements would be made until after the Presidential elections (still no announcement) but the dogs on the street know which locations are for the chop. The nauseating part of the whole debacle is that these are the recommendations of the military authorities to the Government, under the Department of Defence’s cost cutting plan.

They estimate between €2m-€3m will be saved but that does not take into consideration the cost of private security firms and maintenance when these locations are vacated. Spotlessly clean places of employment will be left to deteriorate unnecessarily.