An Cosantóir

www.military.ie THE DEFENCE FORCES MAGAZINE | 5 Manager Comdt James O'Hara info@military.ie +353 (0)45 44 5306 Editor Sgt Wayne Fitzgerald magazine@military.ie +353 (0)45 44 5307 Connect Sgt Karl Byrne connect@military.ie Photo/Journalist Cpl Lee Coyle journalist@military.ie Photographer Armn Jamie Barrrett photo@military.ie Subscriptions Cpl Kelly Gallagher +353 (0)45 44 5312 subs@military.ie DF/PR Information Cpl Lynn Ryan admin@military.ie +353 (0)45 44 5308 DF Webmaster Sgt Mick Burke +353 (0)45 44 5309 webmaster@military.ie Magazine Archivist Mr Sean Shinnors Designer/Advertising JM Publishing & Media, Arklow, Co. Wicklow,Ireland Tel: +353 15331911 Tel: +353871344135 Web: www.jmpublishing.ie Email: info@jmpublishing.ie Printer Turner's Printing Co., Ltd Earl Street, Longford, Ireland Tel: +353 (0)43 3350500 The fact that an article appears in this magazine does not indicate official approval of the views expressed by the author. © Published by OiC Public Relations Branch for the Defence Forces at DFHQ, Block 5, Ceannt Bks, DFTC, Curragh Camp, Co Kildare, Ireland. Tel: +353 (0)45 445312 Front Cover Members of 58 Inf Gp during their MRE in the Glen of Imaal. Photo by Armn Jamie Barrett For more Defence Forces photographs, checkout: www.flickr.com/photos/ dfmagazine Editorial H ello and welcome to our November issue, in which leadership is to the fore, with the views of a senior NCO laid out and the awarding of a DSM to Maj Gen Michael Beary in recognition of his exemplary leadership of UNIFIL amongst other accolades. As usual your photographs from around the Defence Forces community open the magazine, to be followed by our In Focus pages in which we visit two of the Treaty Ports, Fort Berehaven and Camden Fort Meagher, celebrating the 80th anniversary of their handovers. In our lead article, Coy Sgt David O'Reilly, senior NCO instructor in the NCOTW, Military College, gives his views on leadership. This is followed by a piece looking at the awarding of the Distinguished Service Medal (DSM) to Maj Gen Michael Beary for '...distinguished service characterised by outstanding qualities of leadership, diplomacy and devotion to duty as Head of Mission and Force Commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon...' This piece is complemented by Lt Col TC O'Brien's look at the establishment of the United Nations Training School Ireland (UNTSI) in the Curragh, which recently celebrated its 25th anniversary, and trains approximately 600 Defence Forces personal a year for overseas peacekeeping service. Our front cover feature looks at the intensive training 58 Inf Gp recently underwent during their mission readiness exercise (MRE) in preparation for deployment to Syria with UNDOF. Staying with an international theme, author and historian Paul O'Brien looks at Mayhem and Murder in Mozambique. In the first of two short features on IUNVA we visit Post 11 (Suncroft/Curragh) for a chat. This is accompanied by Cpl Lee Coyle's feature on IUNVA's annual convention, which took place in Carlow Town recently. Then I report on ONE's annual conference, also held in Carlow, which dealt with some very interesting topics, such as the legal position of comments made on social media. Staying with conferences, we also carry a report on PDFORRA's 27th annual delegate conference, held in Castlebar, Co Mayo. In the first of our History features, former An Cosantóir editor Terry McLaughlin looks at the end of the 'war to end all wars' in The Guns Fell Silent. Staying with the same time period, Peter Mulready tells us about The Ship that Began the Bolshevik Revolution in November 1917. Then we go forward 25 years to 1942, with Patrick Poland's feature on the Irish link to a famous WWII operation in The Heroes of Telemark: The Cobh Connection. In our Sports section we look at this year's An Cosantóir 10K in the Phoenix Park, which is the largest event in the Defence Forces' sporting calendar. All this, plus our regular Tac-Aide, Gear Review, Noticeboard, and Book Review features, and our ever-popular What I Do. Sgt Wayne Fitzgerald MERITORIOUS PROMOTION O n the 17th October, Brig Gen Seán Clancy, General Officer Commanding promoted Armn Austin 'Ozzy' Collins to Corpo- ral for meritorious service with over 40 years loyal service to the Defence Forces and the State. Accompanied by DCOS Ops Maj Gen Kieran Bren- nan and CAS Ops Col Rory O'Connor. Brig Gen Seán Clancy said, "It was my honour to award Cpl Collins with his stripes." BY DCOS OPS MAJ GEN KIERAN BRENNAN

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