Galway Bay fm newsroom – City-native Maureen O’Brien has become the first woman to be promoted to colonel within the Defence Forces.
Colonel O’Brien takes up the appointment of Director of Communications and Information Services.
She graduated from University College, Galway with Bachelor of Science and Higher Diploma in Education, before being awarded a Cadetship in the Defence Forces in 1981.
According to the Irish Times, her most recent deployment was as Chief of Operations Planning in a multinational sector headquarters in Lebanon.