An Cosantóir July / August 2025 www.military.ie/magazine
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n Friday 23rd May
2025, a ceremony
was held in McKee
Barracks to mark the transfer of
appointment of the Chief of Staff
of Óglaigh na hÉireann. Chief
of Staff, Lieutenant General
Seán Clancy transferred the
appointment of Chief of Staff
of Óglaigh na hÉireann to
the Chief of Staff designate,
Brigadier General Rossa Mulcahy. The transfer of authority was
effective from 1 June 2025, when Lieutenant General Seán Clancy
assumed his new appointment as Chair of the European Union
Military Committee. The ceremony was attended by the Tánaiste
and Minister for Defence Simon Harris, members of the Defence
Forces' Board as well as the families of Lieutenant General
Seán Clancy and Brigadier General Rossa Mulcahy.
Biography of 32nd Chief of Staff, Óglaigh na
hÉireann, Lt Gen Rossa Mulcahy
Lt Gen Rossa Mulcahy is a professional communications officer
with over 39 years' experience in a variety of roles across the
Defence Forces as well as deployments with the United Nations
and NATO.
Lt Gen Mulcahy took up his appointment as Assistant Chief of Staff
in Oct 2021 and had responsibility for a range of organisational
level issues including; Organisation Transformation, Capability
Development,
Innovation, Risk
Management, Corporate
Governance, and
Industrial Relations,
Doctrine and Cultural
Transformation.
Lt Gen Mulcahy had
previously served as
Director of Strategic
Planning Branch from
Feb 2020, where he was
responsible for Strategy
Development, Defence Policy Programme Implementation,
Defence Forces' Annual Plans, and International Security and
Defence Policy coordination. From 2019 he was the Director of
Communications and Information Services, with cyber being
COS LT GEN
MULCAHY
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