Background
Twenty-eight year old Ian Malone came from a working class background in the Dublin suburb of Ballyfermot. The eldest of a family of five, Malone was educated by the De La Salle Christian Brothers Catholic school. He served in FCA, the reserve force of the Irish Army. It is claimed that he applied to join the Irish Army as a regular soldier, but was rejected due to his age. but when he joined the Irish Guards in 1997, a regiment of the British Army created in 1900 by Queen Victoria he was 23 years old and the age limits for the Irish Army is over 17 years and under 25 years of age.
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