A lot of Irish people are keen to become men and women in uniform.
If you’re one of the 17,000 Irish people who have applied for a job with An Garda Síochána, you are most likely to meet with disappointment after figures revealed that only one in 28 applicants will be successful.
According to the Irish Times, the Public Appointments Service has confirmed that just under 17,000 people applied for 600 jobs in An Garda Síochána before Wednesday’s deadline.
Applicants will now have to go through four stages of interviews and testing (two rounds of online testing – supervised exam – final stage of interviews) before it is decided if they are eligible to make the cut.
That means that approximately one in 28 applicants will eventually become members of the force and while that figure might seem high, it is down on last year when 23,000 people applied for 550 available positions.
Those who are successful will be paid a stipend of €184 while training in Templemore and will earn a starting salary of €23,171 after graduation.
That figure is supposed to rise to €25,472 after one year and €28,300 after two years, while it currently takes a rank-and-file Garda 19 years to earn the top-level salary of €45,793 per annum.
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