Vetting the Irish Army (1)
01 January 1991
Vetting the Irish Army
artdoc July=1993
All soldiers in the Irish Army have been issued with a
questionnaire which asks respondents to declare whether they,
their friends or family are or have ever been members of the IRA,
INLA, IRSP, Sinn Fein, the Communist Party or the Connolly Youth
Movement. The Army's union, the Permanent Defence Forces Other
Ranks Representatives Association, has instructed its members not
to fill in the questionnaire. The Association's president said,
`this circular puts a serious question mark over our loyalty. It
means our members are not trusted and it has serious civil
liberty and legal implications'.
Sunday Life, 23.5.93.
Statewatch vol 3 no 3 May-June 1993