The State's highest ranking military officer will be honoured today with a major parade and fly-past to mark his retirement.
The celebrations will be held for the Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces, Lt Gen Jim Sreenan, marking the end of an illustrious military career that spanned 40 years.
The ceremony will consist of a parade made up of troops, a march-past that will include armoured personnel carriers and artillery guns and a fly-past by the Air Corps.
The celebrations will be held in McKee Barracks, Blackhorse Avenue, Dublin, at 11.15am.
During his service Lt General Sreenan held a wide variety of appointments at home and overseas.
His service with the UN included tours of duty in Cyprus, the Sinai Desert, the Golan Heights and, most notably, with Unifil in Lebanon where he commanded the Irish Battalion in 1994/95 and returned as Deputy Force Commander in 1999/2000.