...and 'Bye 'Bye Morocco and Spain.
We landed in a Dublin that was suffering under a cloud burst and a cool-in-the-shade breeze blowing.
Four of our menfolk were waiting for us in 4x4's, which was just as well - we each of us had a 20kg, a carry-on, a backpack and oversize handbags, so we needed all the space we could get!
And I think we'll be doing it all over again, in September or October next ; we'd do it sooner, but the villa's booked out for June, July and August.
Anyway - back to basics : I'm back to work late in the coming week and back to blogging on Wednesday, 28th May, with a twenty-piece (or thereabouts) script which the two lads have been working on over the past week - I've just to edit it here and there and add a bit of a verbal sting wherever I feel it's needed, if I don't come down with the bleedin' flu first!
I've seen a digital copy of the post and, among the other bits and pieces we'll be writing about is a piece from the early 1900's when a discussion in Westminster in relation to the then Sinn Féin organisation turned into a verbal autopsy (or post-mortem examination!) on the RIC, the pro-British 'police force' in Ireland, and how that discussion was acted on in Dublin and the repercussions it had on the already-low moral of that grouping...
From the 1920's -
"Between requested transfers and orders from their bosses in Dublin and Westminster, the (British) barracks was soon abandoned because, now that it was known to be 'of interest' to the IRA, the enemy forces knew that the rebels would be back.
And back they were..."
Also from the 1920's - hundreds of yards of road were covered by the IRA ambush team, all armed with rifles.
A smaller operation had been carried out in a nearby village, in the expectation that the enemy forces would call-in reinforcements who would drive into the trap that had been set for them on the way to assist their colleagues.
But...
...you'll just havta wait until Wednesday, 28th May 2025, to find out what happened!
Thanks for reading ; see ya back here on the 28th!
Sharon and the team.
