High Road, Letterkenny closed this morning

muffler

I was driving down from the hospital direction to the main street this morning around 11:15 and the gardai were rerouting traffic off to the right. I noticed that there were other guards further down the road just below the SW office/tax offices.

I took the detour and came down past the barracks and from looking back up the High Road I could see quite a few Gardai around together with army chappies.

What was that all about?

gavmcfad

I saw a few guards and the army at around 12, i thought they were just there for the delivery to the banks.

GoldenGreen

muffler wrote: »

I was driving down from the hospital direction to the main street this morning around 11:15 and the gardai were rerouting traffic off to the right. I noticed that there were other guards further down the road just below the SW office/tax offices.

I took the detour and came down past the barracks and from looking back up the High Road I could see quite a few Gardai around together with army chappies.

What was that all about?

Think there was something on in the county museum for the army so I gussied may be they had a bit of marching out on the high road first.

muffler

gavmcfad wrote: »

I saw a few guards and the army at around 12, i thought they were just there for the delivery to the banks.

No banks up there unless they were delivering money to the dole office but they would hardly close off the road for that though

muffler

GoldenGreen wrote: »

Think there was something on in the county museum for the army so I gussied may be they had a bit of marching out on the high road first.

That could explain it

Trish2007

It was the opening of the new army exhibition in the museum. The army were marching from the market square up to the museum .

Beanstalk

it's all part of the 'how we remember' project. it's aimed at the history of the 28th infantry battalion. theres an exhibition at the museum which opened today, with a brilliant education programme attached to it. theres also a documentary called 'rockhill remembered' which features veterans from the 28th and the 24th inf. batallions in donegal. It will be shown regularly at the museum exhibition.

i have to admit i was involved in part of this project, but it's important to recognise the importance of the arrival of the 28th battalion to lifford, rockhill and finner in the early 1970s because a lot of the soldiers remained here and married, and they brought a lot to the local economy as well! they didn't know what they were in for when jack lynch gave the call, but they've settled in fairly well.

muffler

Beanstalk wrote: »

they didn't know what they were in for

Oh I remember them arriving in Lifford and a few of them who "acted up" certainly didnt know what they were in for when the encountered muffler and mates

Ah the good old days when black eyes were the fashion