About
Michael Walsh, Commandant (retired), served with the Reserve, Fórsa Cosanta Áitiúil (FCA), before joining the Cadet School in the Military College in 1976. During his military career he served in the Artillery Corps and with the Military Police Corps. In 1994 he was seconded to GOAL and worked as a logistics officer in a refugee camp in Goma during the Rwandan genocide. He went to the Lebanon with the 57th Infantry Battalion in 1995 and worked in Sarajevo, Bosnia in 2009. At the time of his retirement from the Defence Forces in 2012 he was serving as Aide de Camp (ADC) to President Michael D. Higgins. Comdt Walsh was interviewed for the Military Archives Oral History Project on 7th February 2017.
