John "Paddy'' Hemingway, an Irish national who enlisted in the Royal Air Force before the war began ... goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge ...

In the line "My country is Kiltartan Cross, / My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor" the airman establishes his own identity, which is neither British nor indeed Irish ... In the air he is free ...

The Department of Health said that along with the HSE National Ambulance Service, it remained “engaged with the Department of Defence and the Irish Air Corps on supporting the continued ...