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Petrol was strictly rationed during the Emergency too, with the lion’s share being reserved for vital public transport.

“A lovely young man who never came to the attention of the school authorities for the wrong reasons.”

Members of the new Kilkenny Joint Policing Committee were delighted to hear that the post of garda sergeant is to be filled at Callan and Johnstown.

In the summer of 1940, following the fall of France to the Germans, thousands of young men enlisted in the Irish Army to defend their land against aggression, training at the Curragh and then being deployed to military barracks around the country.

On the “parade ground” at the old disused workhouse, Seamus O’ Brien and his fellow “rookies”- as they were nicknamed- had to receive basic training in foot drill, before progressing to more advanced military exercises.