ARTILLERY CLUB’s DIARY of Events – 2019

(Changes since previous iteration highlighted in yellow)

Date Event Coordinator Remarks
24 January Committee Meeting: McKee Barracks Secretary Minutes Circulated
21 February Field Trip: Dublin Defences Comdt Lar Joye 23 Attendees, Photos on Website
21 February Committee Meeting: McKee Barracks Secretary Minutes Circulated
25 April Field Trip: Equitation School and Áras an Uachtaráin Col Tom O’Callaghan 29 Attendees, Photos on Website
25 April Committee Meeting: McKee Barracks Secretary Minutes Circulated
11 May Defence Forces Veterans’ Day: Collins Bks Dublin Secretary  
23/24 May

 

Field Trip: Cork Harbour Coast Defence Artillery Forts (1 & 8 Fd Arty Regts) Lt Col C. Lalor (Retd) 36 Attendees, Photos on Website
27 June Committee Meeting: McKee Barracks Secretary Minutes Circulated
13 July Commemoration – Islandbridge President  
14 July National Day of Commemoration President  
23 August

 

Annual Golf Competition & Dinner: Woodenbridge, Co Wicklow Comdt C. O’Flanagan (Retd) 31 Attendees, Photos on Website
Deferred to 2020 Arty Decades’ Reunion – Anniversary of PDF, FCA and AR Commissioning 1949-2019, Visit to Cadet School and Lunch in Military College Col M. Smyth (Retd)  

 

26 September Committee Meeting: McKee Barracks Secretary Minutes Circulated
06 – 11 Oct Foreign Field Trip: Athens Comdt M. Flood (Retd) 31 Attendees, Report & Photos on Website
09 Nov Wreath Laying & Annual Mass: McKee Barracks Secretary Photos on Website
13 November Arty Shoot – Glen Imaal Col S. McDermott (Retd) Photos on Website
04 December DF Remembrance Ceremony, National Monument, Merrion Square Dublin President  
05 December Re-dedication of St Barbara’s Statue, Arty Sch Col S. McDermott (Retd) Calling Notice Issued 13 Nov 19
06 December AGM and St Barbara’s Day Lunch: McKee Barracks Secretary Calling Notice Issued 19 Nov 19