Eve of the Battle of the Tunnel

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Peter Feely
Interviewed for MAOHP - 23/06/2016
Reference Code: IE_MA_MAC_006_MAOHP_001_O
Location(s): Elizabethville, Katanga, Congo
Length: 3.22

In this piece of audio taken from an interview on 24th June 2016, you will hear retired Colonel Peter Feely, a veteran of the Congo and one of three Platoon Commanders at the Battle of the Tunnel (December 1961). Colonel Feely was one of 14 men from 'A' Company of 36th Battalion, who received a DSM (Distinguished Service Medal). Here, Colonel Feely reflects on the Battle of the Tunnel and discusses the night before the action when he, Seán Norton and Paddy O’Riordan (Three Platoon Commanders) shared a can of Guinness. Colonel Feely discusses the possibility that Lieutenant O’Riordan may have been more worried than he was, given his experience of the dynamics in the Congo. 'I arrived in cold to the thing and I wasn't probably too aware of the implications. Paddy would have been there around the camp and listening to what was going on and all the talk and the conjecture and he may have had a sharper appreciation for the potentials of the situation ... I often wondered was he extremely

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