and Shearer towards the bridge at Tara Street. They are pushing a cart stocked with food and water along the tracks over the heavy gravel in shifts of two at a time. It’s valuable so they left ten minutes ahead of a second party led by Tommy and five students who are bringing another cart.

Having sealed off the streets to the rear of the college the plan to raid the shopping centre was now just waiting for the remaining avenues along Grafton Street were secured. The Colonel would look after that with Brian and a group of students from the college physics school while they were gone. After they’d secured the first set of streets they emptied every shop, restaurant and caf� in their little exclusion zone and the plan now was to take as much food and water as they could to the stadium.