The medics worked in the car park behind the pub, on their own first, then on the British officer and two more British wounded found in the houses. The engineers checked the bridge over the Owenmore. Trucks came up with ammunition and fuel.
James helped shift boxes off the burnt-out ammunition truck to one that still worked, his side pulling with every box. Nobody was asking where the next line was. They were standing in a town the British had held that morning, unloading ammunition into it.
Finn found him by the truck.
"I thought they'd fight harder for it," he said. "Once Eimear's lot got round the side, they just—went."
"They went to Sligo," said James. "They took everything they could carry and put it up there. They're not finished."
"No." Finn took a box off him. "But they're not here, are they."
James did not argue with that.
The reports from the rest of the country came through Kavanagh's radio in the evening.
