RAFA – Ireland's Military Story

22 - January , 2018

The RAF’s Best Fighters Are On the Ground

Posted by : Wesley Bourke
Aden, Bahrain, Cyprus, RAF, RAFA, Royal Air Force, Royal Air Force Association, Royal Air Force Regiment, Royal Tournament
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The RAF’s Best Fighters Are On the Ground Interview with Frank Brien, Royal Air Force Association (ROI) Published: Winter 2017 edition Seeking adventure Frank Brien served with the Royal Air Force (RAF) from 1963-1968. Within a very short time, he found himself in Cyprus, Aden and Bahrain with the RAF Regiment. Finishing school in Donnycarney

22 - January , 2018

Coming Down in the Drink – Flight Lieutenant John Brennan

Posted by : Wesley Bourke
Ballylinan, Bomber Command, RAF, RAFA, Royal Air Force, Royal Air Force Association, WW2
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Published: Winter 2017 edition Born 5 January 1921, John Brennan was an Irishman who need not have fought in the war at all. John Brennan joins the Royal Air Force A sense of adventure, however, and the need to escape an over-bearing mother took him from his village in Ballylinan, a small, farming village on