Fixed Bayonets Against Our Own – the 4th Motor Sqadron based in Longford preparing to attack protesters at the Curragh Camp in Kildare in 1972

Kenny seized the opportunity of Brexit to show how Ireland can be united without voilence, which in previus decades had led to Irish troops being ordered by officers to bayonet their own people, which to the soldiers eternal credit they refused to do.

Kenny seized the opportunity of Brexit to show how Ireland can be united without voilence, which in previus decades had led to Irish troops being ordered by officers to bayonet their own people, which to the soldiers eternal credit they refused to do.