"I see the fear in him even today, even after 65 years." Phil Farrington wouldn't be any use to either army I would have thought with that sort of an attitude.
Seriously, they are desperate to get a new generation of Irish to fight their wars for them .That's what all this is about .
It should be borne in mind that Irish deserters from the Irish army during WW2 fared better than the Irish deserters from the British army in the previous world war .