ARTILLERY CLUB’s DIARY of Events – 2022
Date | Event | Coordinator | Remarks |
21 April | Field Trip to DFTC, Ordnance Workshops (Civil War 18-pounder Mark II QF Field Gun), and the Curragh Museum | Col Seamus McDermott (Retd) | Report and Photos on Website |
19 June | Defence Forces Veterans’ Day: McKee Bks Dublin | Secretary | |
09 July | Commemoration – Islandbridge | President | |
10 July | National Day of Commemoration | President | |
01 September
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Annual Golf Competition & Dinner: Midleton, Co Cork | Lt Col Cormac Lalor (Retd) & Comdt Jack Burke (Retd) | Report and Photos on Website |
29 September | Committee Meeting: McKee Barracks | Secretary | |
October | Foreign Field Trip to London | Comdt Michael Flood (Retd) | Deferred to 2023 |
26 October | Arty Decades’ Reunion – Anniversary of PDF, FCA and AR Commissioning 1949-2019, 1950 – 2020, 1951 – 2021 and 1952 – 2022, Visit to Cadet School and Lunch in Military College | Col Michael Smyth (Retd) | Calling Notice Issued 14 July, reissued on 12 August. Instructions issued 20 October
Report and Photos on Website |
12 November | Units’ Annual Mass and Wreath Laying: McKee Barracks | Comdt R. Armstrong (Retd) | Report and Photos on Website |
16 November | Defence Forces Remembrance Ceremony, National Memorial, Merrion Square, Dublin | President | |
01 December | Artillery School’s Annual St Barbara’s Commemoration, Defence Forces Training Centre | Col Seamus McDermott (Retd) | Calling Notice Later |
02 December | AGM and St Barbara’s Day Lunch: McKee Barracks | Secretary | Calling Notice issued 03 Nov |