Range Officers

This year has seen the departure of several Range Officers, including some of the old guard. Doctor Ian Marnane graduated early in 2000, and left soon thereafter, though not before doing a night or two of RO Duty, for old times sake. Leaving with him was long-standing member Andrea Lazenby-Simpson, who graduated last year but volunteered to assist in extremis. Mark Treanor also graduated and decided that it was a better idea to earn money in the real world than become a postgraduate! The CRO at the start of the year, Willie O'Connor, had to leave due to family and work committments, at which time I took over as CRO - filling his shoes proved a difficult task. Eric Farrell also had to leave, due to the workload his studies were imposing - hopefully he may decide to return at a future date.

This loss of ROs does happen from year to year, but this year proved to be especially heavy and left us rather shorthanded - a larger number of TROs than usual were recruited as a result. The new Range Officers this year were David Gallagher and Shane Kelly (who had been Trainee Range Officers the year before), Peter Byrne, Conor McDermottroe, Liam Murray and Stephen Watterson. The Committee hereby offically welcomes them to a long and happy period of servitude in the name of the Club .