Winter In Dublin...Lynch's Gamble

Don't worry about it mate, take your time. There are things far more important than TLs


Very true. And with that in mind...

Nick checked the signal strength. The dial moved from 0 to 100. Athlone was transmitting and the message was sent. Nick didn't ask questions he just did his job. He was being paid £10 a month just to make sure that during the Angelus at 6.00 the "test messages" were sent. Where they went he didn't know and he didn't care. It was Friday night and he was off out on the streets of Dublin...
 
Nezza, that last post is a tad unrealistic. The first port of call for JCC and the RUC would have been the IRA. That's how they were at the time. The fact that at the IRA for all intents and purposes did not exist, they were way to disorganized.
Plus, let's be honest, no casulties and multiple successful ops?

Someone's going to smell a rat.
 
Wait, quick question.

This is the Irish fighting Northern Ireland right, if so why Dublin, shouldn't it be belfast?

Not really. This is similar to the British's efforts to help European Resistance during WWII. In much the same way as British troops took part in behind the lines operations in occupied Europe in the TL it's Irish troops trying to cause hassle in the North so that eventually the Stormont/London administrations will feel compelled to ask the Dublin Government for help.

Eg Wilson saying to Lynch

"Ok Jack, they feel Irish, not british. Help us with them@

Of course while all the time Wilson is unaware that it's Lynch behind the whole thing. He's crafty is our Jack!
 
Not really. This is similar to the British's efforts to help European Resistance during WWII. In much the same way as British troops took part in behind the lines operations in occupied Europe in the TL it's Irish troops trying to cause hassle in the North so that eventually the Stormont/London administrations will feel compelled to ask the Dublin Government for help.

Eg Wilson saying to Lynch

"Ok Jack, they feel Irish, not british. Help us with them@

Of course while all the time Wilson is unaware that it's Lynch behind the whole thing. He's crafty is our Jack!
Ok, I've thoroughly enjoyed WID, can't wait to see what happens next!
Erin go Bragh!
 
Terence O' Neill the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland left the debating chamber at Stormont in a state of turmoil. For the past 2 hours he had been heckled and chastised by his MP's over the strife affecting the province. In the past 6 weeks power cuts, bomb damage and most recently the felling of trees in the Bogside had led to uproar among the unionist majority. He'd been called weak, useless and a traitor because he refused to order the authorities to arrest suspects.

But there were no suspects. Both branches of the RUC, uniform and Special had cleared explained that "the usual mob" had nothing to do with what had happened.

As a Captain, O'Neill was used to dealing with immense pressure, at least he thought he was. Callaghan on one hand and Paisley on the other were pressurising him to act.

"If I find out who's behind this..." he muttered darkly as he entered his office...
 
Terence O' Neill the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland left the debating chamber at Stormont in a state of turmoil. For the past 2 hours he had been heckled and chastised by his MP's over the strife affecting the province. In the past 6 weeks power cuts, bomb damage and most recently the felling of trees in the Bogside had led to uproar among the unionist majority. He'd been called weak, useless and a traitor because he refused to order the authorities to arrest suspects.

But there were no suspects. Both branches of the RUC, uniform and Special had cleared explained that "the usual mob" had nothing to do with what had happened.

As a Captain, O'Neill was used to dealing with immense pressure, at least he thought he was. Callaghan on one hand and Paisley on the other were pressurising him to act.

"If I find out who's behind this..." he muttered darkly as he entered his office...
Oh this is just perfect.
Also, what's a MP, I'm not very well versed in the parliamentary system.
 
Ian Paisley fumed. Once again he saw his country under threat from "traitors". O Neill in his eyes was a bungler an a coward. His friendliness with that scum in the Republic made him sick. The attacks had made him determined to fight even harder.

Paisley was driven from Stormont to a house in the Falls Road and made a phonecall.
 
Ian Paisley fumed. Once again he saw his country under threat from "traitors". O Neill in his eyes was a bungler an a coward. His friendliness with that scum in the Republic made him sick. The attacks had made him determined to fight even harder.

Paisley was driven from Stormont to a house in the Falls Road and made a phonecall.
This will end well. Hopefully the British do something before Paisley starts a war.
 
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