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Subject: 'The Border Excursion'

Author:
Jim Martin

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Date Posted: 10:53:04 03/15/05 Tue

Believe that it was on the second tour of N.Ireland that we ended up in a place called Aughnacloy which was smack on the border. A sleepy little hamlet in the middle of nowhere!...Or so we thought! We spent alot of time motoring around the countryside,stopping and searching vehicles. I can remember one incident in particular when we stopped this Paddy and asked him to open his boot of his car which he seemed reluctant to do so!...Regardless we opened it and to our amazement found nothing literally! The flooring had rotted away so you could look straight down onto the tarmac so to speak! Only Paddy could travel around in a car like that! I remember that we did go over the border on at least two occassions unintentionally and the only reason that we clicked on was because all the bloody signs were in gaelic. Thankfully the 'Garda' wasn't about so we does a rapid 'U'turn and bollocks back to where we came from at high speed! In this hamlet of Aughnacloy one of the lads found a watering hole at the back of this funeral parlour where you went through a curtain to the bar!...Must have been great for 'Wakes!'....Wee Tommy couldn't understand where his crew kept on disappearing too! I remember a certain chicken farm a real disgusting shithole of a place,searching the outbuildings and surrounding area's for Arms etc....Heard that they had found some weeks after that we had been there, a 'cache of weapons' hidden in plastic bags in a pit full of chicken shit!...Just goes to prove nothing was what it seemed in that place!...Don't you agree?

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