Nikolai: Damn straight. Oh congrats on being declared fan of the month - I meant to post on that thread but it slipped my mind.
'Wee Joe' - he was not the tallest of men - was a tough, street smart Belfast Catholic who might have ended up in Larkin's labour party if not for his strong religous streak. Ferociously patriotic and one of the best orators in the house he represented the new urban Ireland and made a suitably strong willed impression at the War Office. Ningbo, he declared, would be liberated and Irish soldiers would land on Japanese soil within the year.