"FLIPSIDE OF IRELAND"

My most dramatic exploit was in a foreign land, where my best friend and I were surrounded by armed men. We weren’t soldiers, prisoners or spies. Just tourists on an Irish vacation.

“FLIPSIDE OF IRELAND”

My most dramatic exploit was in a foreign land, where my best friend and I were surrounded by armed men. We weren’t soldiers, prisoners or spies. Just tourists on an Irish vacation.  

            John Egan and I are probably the only Americans ever held at gunpoint by troops outside Waterford, Ireland. On a beautiful fall day in 1984…