Most of the room was already on Tipsy’s side and this remark of Dan’s put more over.
Barney said, “Steady on there, Dan.”
But he was beyond calming. “That’s it, back-clap each other. That’s about all ye’re good for around here.” He blundered across the room away from them. In his anger, his Cork accent was very strong. “If you’re all such great Republicans, how come when HQ had a job to do in Wexford, it had to be given to outsiders to do?”
“God, are you ever going to let go of that?” Barney said. “Just because the job went to a Corkman. We’ve heard you tell that one twenty times over.”
“And I’ve not heard you answer it once. It’s ye that are the traitors and ye haven’t even the wit to see it.”
Peg had to speak then, though her voice was shaking through the interjection. “Now look her
