Tim Wilton’s Flying Column

SEAN SOUTH ; WHEN DID HE APPROACH THE BORDER TOWN?There is a tendency for our younger fans to rewrite and re-sing history. I was always led to believe that “It was on a dreary New Year’s DAY as the shades of night came down,,,,” and NOT ‘ New Year’s EVE’ certainly the IRA party would have been approaching the border town on the 31st but it was on 1 January 1957 that they crossed the border into Co.Fermanagh and not on the night of Hogmanay...