The guns had come up from Castlebaldwin faster than anyone said they would, and by four o'clock the army was moving again.
James walked up the N4 beside the second truck with Finn on his left and Feeney's section strung out ahead along the verge. Behind them, the road was full. There were ammunition trucks, two ambulances, an engineer's lorry with a small digger on the back, and the armoured vehicles grinding along at walking pace. Beyond the hedges on either side, other formations were moving north on the small roads, keeping level with them.
Eimear was out to the west somewhere with the Galway formation, coming at Collooney along the Ballinacarrow road.
The N4 ran north from Ballygawley bridge to Collooney, four kilometres. At Collooney it met the N17 coming up from Tubbercurry, and the two roads went on together to Sligo. Whoever held that junction held everything that came south out of Sligo.
