Untitled story, by Myra McCarthy (Story details)
The experiences of former police officers from the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC; Northern Ireland) and the Garda Síochána (GS; Republic of Ireland), especially in relation to the border between the two jurisdictions.
A personal account from a collection of 39 interviews recorded as part of the Green and Blue Across the Thin Line project. The interviews were conducted with former police officers who served in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Extracts from the interviews were published in a book of the same title in 2014. (This account is one of 19 for which the audio file and full transcript were made available at the project's Web site. This particular story was also deposited with the Accounts archive.)
Green and Blue – Across the Thin Line project
See also the Green and Blue website: http://www.green-and-blue.org/
Police Services; Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland; 1920s to 2001