Lions, a headmaster and broken pottery... some more Cork memories

People returning from England on the Innishfallen in 1939.
PAT Dennehy writes to tell us how delighted he was to read Jerry Holt’s memories of Glanmire Station (now Kent) and the old days of excursions and ‘specials’: “While reading last Thurs. Throwback Column (30/09/21) and Jerry Holt’s memories, I was transported (no pun intended) back to the years, 1966 to 1970 that I served in Glanmire Road (Kent Station) and in the CIE Freight Offices (both Road & Rail) on Penrose Quay. I was then promoted to the CIE Computer Dept. in Dublin. Computer technology was in its infancy back then, and the IBM 360 Mainframe, which took up a whole building, had less processing power than a mobile phone does today! I remember Jimmy O’Keeffe and the stationmaster, Theo Linehan, quite well.





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