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REPORT & PhOTOS by CPL LEE COyLE
A
n Cosantóir visited Wexford Military Post to talk to Pte Packy Somers
about his RDF career, a health scare, and his upcoming World Karate
and Kickboxing Commission (WKC) Senior
Veteran (90kg) world championship title fight
in Orlando, Florida, this November.
Growing up I had family serving
in the PDF, my brother Pte Derek
Somers, served in the Curragh
as a medic and my uncle, Sgt
Major Paddy Waters, served
in the Equitation School in
McKee Bks. I enlisted in my
local RDF unit, A Coy, 10 Inf
Bn, in Wexford in the early
'90s but due to work com-
mitments I couldn't parade
and left after three years.
However, I re-enlisted in
June 1996.
I had an interest in the
Defence Forces, weapons, and
fitness from an
early age and
sometimes
think it's
a shame
I never
en-
listed
in to
the
BoxinGclever
"I was diagnosed
with skin cancer,
which was a harder
blow than I ever
received in the ring…
I've always been a
fighter so beating it
was another great
victory for me."
