EIRE: FAMILIES FROM TROUBLE SPOTS IN NORTHERN IRELAND HOUSED IN IRISH REPUBLIC AIR CORPS CAMP.

Record ID: 1080966

  • Title: EIRE: FAMILIES FROM TROUBLE SPOTS IN NORTHERN IRELAND HOUSED IN IRISH REPUBLIC AIR CORPS CAMP.
  • Date: 9th July 1970
  • Summary: 1. GV Refugees outside army huts 0.05 2. CU Soldier at camp entrance 0.08 3. CU Flag & sign(2 shots) 0.13 4. SV Women & Children in camp 0.18 5. SV PAN Children play officer watches 0.26 6. CU PAN Children 0.30 7. SV Family near hut 0.34 8. GV Huts 0.37 9. SV INT. Family in hut 0.42 10. CU Portable cooking stove 0.45 11. CU Young boy 0.48 12. GV Huts 0.50 13. SV & CU INT. Irish Red Cross worker distributing clothes 1.04 14. CU Garments on trestles 1.12 15. SV Women looking at clothes 1.17 16. CU & SV Soldier with children on bench 1.23 Initials SAW/MR/BB SAW/MR/SGM orig on 6636/70 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 23rd July 1970 13:00
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  • Location: GORMANSTOWN, EIRE
  • Country: Ireland
  • Reuters ID: LVA45IATJ6DP8Q5SFQG7ODIMQFXT
  • Story Text:As tension continues in Northern Ireland on the eve of the planned Orange Order weekend celebrations, some families from the trouble spots have been housed at an Air Corps base at Gormanstown, South of the Border in Eire.

    The Government of the Irish Republic has made available huts at the camp for more than 250 women and children from the North.

    Normally, only about 20 Air force personnel live at the camp, but now the facilities are being used to cope with the families. For some of the arrivals it is not their first visit--several of the families came to Gormanstown during violent outbreaks in Belfast earlier in the year. Food is being provided by the Government and the Irish Red Cross is distributing clothes and other supplies to those in need.

    Troops at the camp are quickly making friends with the children. For these Northern Irish families a stay at the camp in Eire is a pleasant change from the grim realities of life in the troubled cities of Ulster.
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