Newry

Because of the cathedral, that's why it's a city.

And then there's Newry, Perth, and Wells.

All

cities in the UK that have only E's.

You know, you had, I mean, Billy Hamilton, you know, the most unionist name I could conjure up is Billy Hamilton.

But then you had Pat Jennings, who's a GAA player from Newry, you know, Martin O'Neill from Derry, you know.

And it worked.

And then, you know...

Further orders were issued that a company from the Dublin garrison was to precede the Carrickfergus.

A select battalion of the 14th Infantry Brigade was to be sent by train Two companies appeased in Newry and Dundalk, which was not part of the original deployment orders issued by Jack Seeley on the 14th.

But crucially, both Newry and Dundalk were Catholic and Nationalist, so there was no danger from the UVF.

But Newry commanded a crucial railway junction, crucial because it was the gateway in the Ulster, and now it was secured.

It had not been occupied in eight years and had absolutely no stores.

Dundalk was the headquarters of the 18th Brigade and headed off any attempt by the UVF to capture and add field guns to its sparse inventory.

And as the dispatch riders went in and out through the gates, the army movements were reported.

By Friday afternoon, the Duke of Cornwall's light infantry were moving north by rail.

I get up on my own volition.

Now, once or twice my mates would go, but I went off by myself to places like Coal Island, Derry, Newry, where H-Black rallies and marches and all going on.

And it might not sound much, but it was a bit of an effort when you're still quite young.

You've got to find out where it is.

I remember the... like I remember 2000s even after single market we were all in the EU and people used to go for Christmas drink up to an hour oh yeah you go to

Newry there were phases where you got your petrol in Newry or you went to shopping in Newry and then there were phases where you got your petrol in Dundalk because it was cheaper so this is kind of common and usually during the war as you say Derry we did a long and short of it about Derry and there were loads of people from Donegal who worked in Derry during the war yeah I went back and forth sometimes, you know, bringing things back and forth, mainly from the south to the north, I think it was.

Of course, of course, yeah.

And they're always going to be smuggling.

No matter how, say, strong your barter is and cheques are, they will always be smuggling.

Particularly if there's divergence, and there generally is, whether it's currency, whether it's taxation, whether it's duties on goods, there's always going to be some disparities between certain items.

on both sides of the border so that's going to lead to smuggling it just does you know and like I remember there was a I think the Economist did an art in the 80s but at certain times of the year there are more Dundalk people in Newry than there are in Dundalk itself like electrical goods electrical goods are so much cheaper in the north than the south like colour TVs

yeah

Fiona has a Dine Patrick out and about once a month.

She's a Newry meet up once a month.

There's a Portadown meet up once a month.

There's also brunches.