Echobeat

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Author: Joe Joyce
other cards. To create more diversions, so to speak.’ He sat forward and tapped Duggan’s report again. ‘This is useful information about Dr Goertz. Do we know how often he’s been in touch with the legation or its staff?’
    McClure shook his head with regret. ‘We’ve lost track of him in recent weeks,’ he admitted. ‘The IRA is believed to be hiding him. Perhaps others as well.’
    ‘In this context he is of less importance than the accredited diplomats,’ Ó Murchú said. ‘It could be very useful if we were to find any further evidence of collusion between them and unauthorised agents.’
     
    ‘I don’t like deadlines like this,’ McClure said when they were back in the car, lighting cigarettes before they pulled away.
    ‘Should we drop everything else?’ Duggan pointed the car towards St Stephen’s Green and headed for Grafton Street.
    ‘God, no.’ McClure wound down the window a fraction to let out the smoke. ‘Can’t afford to do that. Just need to put our thinking caps on.’
    Grafton Street was coming back to life after the holiday, cars and buses slowed by cyclists and people, heavily wrapped against the cold, heading for restaurants, gathering outside the cinema, and checking the shop windows advertising the post-Christmas sales due to begin in the morning.
    ‘I’ll have a word with the Special Branch,’ McClure continued. ‘See if their surveillance of the legation has thrown up anything they haven’t bothered to tell us. We’re not looking for much, after all. Just some people to be in the same place at the same time.’
    Duggan braked gently as two middle-aged couples dashed across the street in between cars and hurried, laughing, down the laneway into Jammet’s oyster bar to round off a day spent at Leopardstown races.
    ‘That’s it,’ McClure clicked his fingers and brightened up. ‘We need to look more closely at the Germans’ IRA connections. Much easier to build up a dossier of their contacts with subversives. That’d suit Ó Murchú’s purposes just as well. Allow him to have a go at the Germans for interfering in our internal affairs. Helping those who’re conspiring to bring down our state.’
    ‘He didn’t say anything about them.’
    ‘Never mind,’ McClure retorted. ‘We’re more likely to get some quick results on that front from the Branch. They’re much more interested in the local gunmen than in invasion threats.’
    Freed from Grafton Street, they sped across the river and headed along the quays. McClure rolled down his window and tossed out his cigarette butt, narrowly missing a Guinness dray carrying empty barrels as they overtook it. Deep in thought, he didn’t notice.
    ‘The Branch might know who Thomsen was meeting in Dundalk,’ Duggan suggested.
    ‘They were following him?’
    ‘I don’t know. But they were at Amiens Street when he got off the train,’ he paused. ‘At the customs check.’
    Duggan flicked out the car’s indicator and turned into Infirmary Road and stopped while the sentry raised the barrier at the gate into headquarters. He parked and turned off the engine but McClure made no move to get out. Duggan waited.
    ‘You might talk to your uncle as well,’ McClure looked at him.
    ‘Okay,’ Duggan said in surprise. It was the first time McClure had ever suggested he use his family connections for work.
    ‘He’s a man about town, isn’t he?’
    ‘He’s certainly that,’ Duggan laughed, wondering if McClureknew something about what his uncle Timmy was up to. Timmy made no secret of his support for Germany, though his public pronouncements were restricted by his party’s insistence on strict adherence to neutrality. Timmy had little interest in Hitler’s vision of a new Europe but still believed in the old Irish revolutionary dictum that England’s difficulty was Ireland’s opportunity and that a German victory would reunite the country. Timmy, like Duggan’s father, had fought the British less than twenty years
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