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Fianna Fáil’s Robert Troy called it a “a dark day for Athlone” as the Government admitted that the 4th Western Brigade will lose out in the reorganisation of the Defence Forces.

The future of Custume Barracks is uncertain as the headquarters for the 4th Western Brigade came under question this week as Minister for Defence, Alan Shatter, failed to give a definite answer on which brigades will be kept on under a new two-brigade structure.

In a spirited speech in Dáil Éireann this week, Deputy Ann Phelan, defended the retention of James Stephen's Army Barracks in Kilkenny "as a strategic regional Army presence in the southeast".