British soldier deployed to north advising state body

British soldier deployed to north advising state body

Make a one-time donation to The DitchThe Department of Defence recruited a British Army colonel – who served in the occupation of the north of Ireland and invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan – to advise a state body tasked with reforming the Irish Defence Forces. Department of Defence secretary general Jacqui McCrum requested that colonel Simon Farebrother join the Defence Forces’ external oversight body – with an internal memo noting the British …