Three Fewer Pipe Bands in the Army


"Brian Boru VIII, mascot of the Royal Irish Regiment"


The three home-service battalions of the RIR are being disbanded next year and so their pipe bands will be gone with them. The parade to mark the disbandment was held yesterday. The battalions in question are the lineal descendants of the old Ulster Defence Regiment so the grief here at The Inn will be perhaps something less than overwhelming. But still. A pipe band is a pipe band.