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22-09-05, 02:19
Full-time soldiers hit by the disbandment of the Royal Irish Regiment home battalions should get redundancy payments of £60,000, the UUP has said.

Ulster Unionist leader Sir Reg Empey told Defence Secretary John Reid some Royal Irish troops should serve with the reduced garrison of 5,000 soldiers.

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