irish army on parade in dundalk ireland (27/3/2008)

irish army on parade in dundalk before their deployment over-sea's to kosovo.

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• irish
• army
• dundalk
• kosovo
• parade
• marching
• ireland
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• guns
• defence
• forces

[missireland28]

is that kevin finnegan who made this lol youd know by that tattoo

[kevinf2008]

yes,this is kevin finegan.who are you???

[gaelicpiper]

Brilliant tattoo mate!!

[kevinf2008]

cheers for the comment on my tattoo.

[sgtpronto]

Thanks for that, i didn't get to see it today. Only wish i was going with them to Kosovo, had great crack there before myself.

[kevinf2008]

no problem.i woz up watching the parade today (27/3/2008) as my younger brother woz in it.he is going back over to kosovo for his second time and this woz the first time that the army paraded like this outside of dublin,so i heard.

im in the middle of uploading another video of todays parade,so u can watch that too if you like.

[SaorEire1916]

Why is the Irish Army playing a british Army March, "Imperial Echos"?? Haven't we Irish had enough of British Imperialism at home from 1183 to 1921 and beyond to disdain the playing of one of their Imperial Marches? Go figure! I am sure that there are more than enough legitimate Irish Marches to play instead of praising the British connection!

[paddywestie]

ya maybe,but there grand for what we need.we aint a big country like britain so we dont need big tanks or anything like that.they do alrite for peacekeeping and stuff but obviously not when you fighting a war.

[greenmile1992]

- ..on a different note. the irish defence forces is not, and never has been, involved in the Irish civil war. the irish defence forces is NOT the old Irish army that fought against the IRA in the civil war. that was the old national army, of the old irish free state, which no longer exists. the irish defence forces was formed in 1923. ... simple as.

[greenmile1992]

Just want to clarify for some seriously uneducated people here. the irish army did not copy the british way of marching, uniform, or saluting. our salute is different. our uniforms from the beginning were based on german, belgian/french (see old dress uniforms) and more continental styles of uniforms. our march may be similar but it is very different in ways, and the british did not pioneer the beret. by adopting it, just because they had it too, doesn't mean we copied them. (continued)

[grobo11]

@SaorEire1916 Well, the Irish copy the British way of marching, saluting, our formal dress, our use of berets etc. So why not music? It's only a marching song, and a good one at that.

Also, British rule was from 1707-1921. There was no Britain before 1707 remember.

[WestBritWatch]

@CharlieBravoEcho88 The IDF was formed from the Free State army who fought for the British empire

[CharlieBravoEcho88]

@WestBritWatch The IDF was formed from the old IRA

[CharlieBravoEcho88]

@WestBritWatch The IDF was formed the old IRA - you are retarded

[WestBritWatch]

The Irish Republican Army is Irelands national armed forces.

These imposters are the Free State army who fought and crushed the all Ireland Republic. 

[kevinf2008]

@Cooleoh2211 If people dont know the difference between the IDF and the IRA,they shouldnt put up comments, coz they obviously dont know what they are talking about.

[EmuinMacha]

@SaorEire1916 - you forgot about the Irish in the north.

[croppiebhoy]

there is only one irish army the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY