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Post by willie on Sept 13, 2007 9:52:49 GMT
AS a kid I remember selling newspapers [ for Biddy Dobbins]outside the old chapel I also remember there were two doors ,one for officers and families and one for the "ranks and families", I tried a few times to go in the officers door but I was turned away by the PAs who used to be on duty to make sure none of the working class went in the officers entrance, strange that when you went into the graveyard there was only one gate for everyone
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Post by willie on Sept 13, 2007 18:39:01 GMT
No Problem , talking about the swimming pool Sgt Madden and Sgt Cullen were i/c in my time. a great swimmer during our time was Red Whelan [cadet] when I joined the Army School of Music in 1959 the was a Captain. Like the PA's he remembered me also [ha ha]
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Post by Guest on Nov 6, 2007 19:26:43 GMT
Remember the Saturday nights when kids from Connelly and Plunket waited with beady eye & baited breath for Peter Hicky's exit from the Church, arms laded with the last weeks alter flowers, to be dumped at the back of the church. The boys were no match for the fight & flight of the Earls...ahem!....Girls! when they appeared in full flight from every corner of their red brick 'mansions' to claim the blessed blooms. After all, with the army paying the florists bill, the 'so called withered' posey's were such a blooming sight as to elicit a smile on the face of any drooping mammy of yesterday's Curragh community.
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