An Cosantóir February 2018 www.dfmagazine.ie
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Kildare Gaa Handballer of THe Year
Tpr Brendan Higginbotham 1 ACS was named as the Kildare GAA
Handballer of the year 2017. He is pictured with his award and
Comdt James Sharkey, OC 1 ACS. Photo: Sgt Karl Byrne
on TarGeT for
manY Years
Pictured is Reservist Cpl Bill
Smith, 2 Bde Tpt Gp being
presented with a memento by Lt
Ultan Coen, RDF, 2 Bde Tpt Gp on
the occasion of his stand down
from the RDF after 40 years'
service, in 11 Fd S&T Coy, Tpt Coy
62 LSB and currently, 2 Bde Tpt
Gp. Bill was a stalwart of unit
shooting teams for many years
and holds the distinction of being
the first unit member to win the
RDF All Army Individual Pistol
title. Bill also won Bde titles in the
team event in 2011, 12, 13 and 2017.
Bill has been a member of Dublin
Fire Brigade for many years.
Photo: Sgt Frank Nolan RDF, Tpt
Sch, Tpt Gp, DFTC
PromoTions
Pictured is Cpl Leonard
Healy being presented his
new rank markings on his
promotion to Cpl by Acting
OC 1 Bde CIS Coy, Capt Kate
O'Flynn in Collins Bks, Cork
on 21st November 2017.
Photo: A/Coy Sgt Cormac
Byrne, 1 Bde CIS Coy
PromoTions
Pictured is RSM Pat Balfe
being welcomed in to 2
Bde MP Coy on his recent
promotion to the unit by
Comdt Emmett Harney,
APM 2 Bde on the 14th
December 2017. Photo:
Cpl Barry Donnelly, 2 BDE
MP Coy
THanK You Team-alPHa
On the 9th January An Cosantóir visited
Daniel Technologies/Team-Alpha.ie to
thank them for sponsoring our Gear Review
page from April 2012 to our December 2017.
Sarah Stritch from Daniel Technologies/
Team-Alpha.ie is pictured with Sgt Wayne
Fitzgerald. Photo: Cpl Lee Coyle
roberT fisK visiTs dundalK
Beirut based Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk
recently visited Aiken Bks, Dundalk on request from
Lt Col Mark Hearns and Lt Col John Kilmartin, OC
27 Inf Bn, to view a weapon that he donated to the
museum in the Bks. The weapon a short magazine,
Lee-Enfield (SMLE), No 1, Mark III, who Mr Fisk was
presented on the occasion of his 70th birthday by Mr
Walid Jumblatt, Chairman of Lebanon's Progressive
Socialist Party and prominent Lebanese Druze
Leader in Beirut. Mr Fisks father, William, fought in
World War I and would have used a similar weapon.
Pictured are Lt Col Mark Hearns and Mr Robert Fisk.
Photo: Cpl Lee Coyle
