My colleague said that, being fed up with rationing in NI, his crew decided to nip over the border, find an Irish pub, and have a few glasses of whisky (or should that be whiskey). So, one evening, they borrowed a 3 ton truck, all piled aboard and drove across the (completely unmanned) border. They drove to the west coast, and headed south, stopping at the first pub they saw.
Right and given that history shows that severe rationing was in force in Ireland do you not think that a 3 ton truck wandering round the countryside looking for a pub would not get noticed ?
Ireland is not short of pubs, the idea that someone would take a truck and wander miles and miles passing towns and pubs so they could just get into the same pub as a phantom U Boat crew is one of those stories which not even the great fiction writers would believe.