{"id":1672,"date":"2014-07-12T09:57:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T09:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kildare.ie\/ehistory\/?p=1672"},"modified":"2025-10-29T17:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T17:20:13","slug":"three-artillery-men-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/three-artillery-men-retire\/","title":{"rendered":"THREE ARTILLERY MEN RETIRE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><em>Leinster Leader<\/em> 23 February 1963<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Three Army men with long service at Artillery Barracks, Kildare, recently retired from the Defence Forces \u2015 Battery Sergt. Louis O&#8217;Carroll, Sergt. Barney McCourt and Cpl. Dick Duggan.<\/p>\n<p>The first named was one of the best known N.C.O&#8217;s in the Barracks, having been stationed there for well over thirty years. He will continue to live in Kildare. He has got a civilian position on Curragh Camp.<\/p>\n<p>Sergt. Barney McCourt is also a well known figure in the area and has been associated with the Barracks for many years. He takes a very keen interest in amateur drama.<\/p>\n<p>Cpl. Dick Duggan is well-known in G.A.A. circles, having been a member of the Kildare junior hurling team which won Leinster honours way back in 1924.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leinster Leader 23 February 1963 Three Army men with long service at Artillery Barracks, Kildare, recently retired from the Defence Forces \u2015 Battery Sergt. Louis O&#8217;Carroll, Sergt. Barney McCourt and Cpl. Dick Duggan. The first named was one of the best known N.C.O&#8217;s in the Barracks, having been stationed there for well over thirty years. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-history"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Kildare Local Studies","author_link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/author\/localstudies\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1672"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8103,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions\/8103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}