Don't know exactly what to make of this

[O'Callaghan]

I am apalled. I am sure that my own Irish ancestors suffered at the hands of the English, and yet as an English tourist in Ireland I never met with anything like this. I can't even imagine it happening.

[Pleater]

Oh what a hoot!!

I'd love to see the looks on people's faces when they are told - I wonder if they have a security camera.

I suspect that was thought up by someone who has served in the British military, having met with similar thinking before now. Possibly special forces, they have a sort of sideways sense of humour that is quite awful on its day, but becomes a thing of admiration, if not legend, once time has mellowed it.

Anne the Pleater