They lost twenty minutes to it while other sections went past them up the road.
Kavanagh came on the radio a while later, and Hargadon passed it on.
"Captain says the roundabout's ours, and the retail park, and the houses on this side as far as the cemetery. Nolan's lot are done on the Cranmore side. They had a hard time of it but they got it. And regional command says keep going, but anybody we find, we take them out the back way before we go any further."
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Two hundred metres on, the road bent, and a British armoured vehicle opened up from the far end of it.
The front of the section went flat. Something hit the corner of a house and the plaster came off in a cloud.
The Irish vehicle couldn't come up. A lorry was jackknifed across the road behind them, cars were parked along both kerbs, and with houses either side it would have had no line to fire on even if it got through.
