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Short Biographical Statement Short Biographical Statement 1. Col Richard E.M. Heaslip (Retd) was a member of the 37th Cadet class 1962 64 and he retired from the Defence Forces in 2003. Commissioned into the Cavalry Corps he held troop, staff, and command appointments at all levels and was an Instructor at both the Cavalry School and the Military College. He was the first Officer Commanding the Army Ranger Wing (ARW) and held numerous senior staff appointments at DFHQ in Operations Section and Administration Section. His overseas service includes UNFICYP, UNTSO, UNIFIL, EUMM Bosnia 96-97 and OSCE as Chief of the Kosovo Verification Mission and Regional Administrator in the rank of A/Brig Gen in 1989. He concluded his service as Senior Liaison Officer to HQ SHAPE Mons, PCC, and ICC from 2000 to 2003 as a member of the Irish Military Staff Europe. 2. Declan Power is a lecturer in communications. He also works as an independent security and defence analyst for the Irish and international media. He served for over 12 years in the Defence Forces and is a graduate of DCU and TCD. His first book ‘Siege At Jadotville’ was published in 2005. He is currently working with the Irish Rapid Reaction Corps in Darfur, Sudan. 3. Robert Fisk was born July 12, 1946 in Maidstone, Kent. He is the Middle East correspondent for The Independent and has been described by the New York Times as “probably the most famous foreign correspondent in Britain”. Robert has over thirty years of experience in international reporting, dating from the 1970s in Belfast, Portugal’s 1974 Carnation Revolution, the 1975 - 1990 Lebanese Civil War, the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the1980-88 Iran-Irag war, the 1991 Persian Gulf War, and recent conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. He is one of the few Western journalists to have interviewed Osama Bin Laden on three occasions between 1994 and 1997. He is also the world’s most-decorated foreign correspondent having received numerous awards including the British Press Awards’ International Journalist of the Year award seven times. In 1991, Fisk won a Jacob’s Award for his RTÉ Radio coverage of the first Gulf War; he received Amnesty International UK Press Awards in 1998 for his reports from Algeria and again in 2000 for his articles on the NATO air campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999. In 2001, he was awarded the David Watt prize for “outstanding contributions towards the clarification of political issues and the promotion of their greater understanding” for his investigation into the Armenian Genocide by the Turks in 1915. More recently, he was awarded the 2006 Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize. He holds a PhD in History from Trinity College Dublin was made an honorary Doctor of Laws by the University of St Andrews on June 24, 2004. The Political and Social Sciences department of Ghent University (Belgium) awarded Fisk an hononary doctorate on March 24, 2006. He was also awarded an honorary doctorate by the 165
Defence Forces Review 2008 American University of Beirut in June 2006. His literary includes The Point of No Return: The Strike which Broke the British in Ulster, London: Times Books/Deutsch; In Time of War: Ireland, Ulster and the Price of Neutrality, 1939-1945, London: Gill & Macmillan; Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War London: Oxford University Press, The Great War for Civilisation - The Conquest of the Middle East (2005) London. Fourth Estate; and The Age of the Warrior: Selected Writings (2008) London, Fourth Estate. 4. Kevin Myers was born 30 March 1947. He is an Irish journalist who currently writes for the Irish Independent, having previously contributed to The Irish Times newspaper, where he wrote the “An Irishman’s Diary” column several times weekly for many years. Kevin was born and raised in Leicester, England. He attended Ratcliffe College and graduated from University College Dublin with a first class honours degree in History. He began work as a journalist for Radio Telefís Éireann, and reported from Northern Ireland during the height of the Troubles from 1971 to 1978. In the 1980s, he covered on the Lebanese Civil War, and in the 1990s on the Bosnian War. He is based in Dublin and lives in Ballymore Eustace, County Kildare. Over the years Kevin has promoted an awareness of Irish soldiers who served in the British Armed Forces, particularly in World War I, arguing that they believed they were doing their patriotic duty as Irishmen. He has also faulted the official commemoration of the 1916 Easter Rising, and has raised concerns about uncritically celebrating Irish rebellions of former times. During the 1990s he presented the Challenging Times television quiz show on RTÉ and in 2000, he published a collection of his An Irishman’s Diary columns. He has also published a novel Banks of Green Willow, and in 2006, he published Watching the Door, about his time as a journalist in Northern Ireland during the 1970s. 5. Dr. John Moriarty retired from the Defence Forces in 2002, with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He was educated at the Christian Brothers School in Dingle and in Rockwell College. He holds degrees in philosophy, psychology and education from University College Dublin. During this time, he also attended the School of Music, Chatham Road under the tutelage of the late Sydney Grieg. He studied medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons and did post graduate work at the Irish College of General Practitioners. John was commissioned into the army in 1977. He holds a degree in law from University College Galway and a post graduate degree from the Honourable Society of Kings Inns in Dublin. He was called to the Irish Bar in 1988. In 2000, he also completed a diploma at the International Institute of Humanitarian Law in San Remo, Italy. He still works in medicine and is particularly interested in preventative medicine. In law, his main interests are public international law, human rights and the law of evidence. He served in the Lebanon with the 44th, 49th, 64th, 65th, 68th, 70th, 74th, 80th, 84th, 87th, 88th and 89th battalions. He also served in East Timor for short periods in January and in April/May of 2002. 6. Javier Pérez de Cuéllar de la Guerra (born January 19, 1920, in Lima) is a Peruvian diplomat who served as the fifth Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1, 1982 to December 31, 1991. He studied in Colegio San Agustín of Lima, and then at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. In 1995, he ran 166
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