When the troops go marching out

The threat to close Columb Barracks could be the last straw for Mullingar, which, locals tell KATHY SHERIDAN  , is becoming the Bermuda Triangle of business

WILLIE PENROSE didn’t bother with a silencer at a charged meeting of army wives and supporters in Mullingar last Monday. The closure of Columb Barracks, said the local TD and Minister of State, would be “crass stupidity and economic lunacy . . . I have no intentions of supporting stupid  decisions.”

It sounded like a line in the sand. It had to be, if Penrose is to retain any credibility. Two years ago he warned that the people of Mullingar and wider Co Westmeath would fight any planned closure “tooth and nail, and if you are contemplating such a move, let me tell you now and advise you for free: forget it, as we will not allow it to happen in any shape or form . . . We won’t allow the barracks to close in any term, either short, medium or long.”

Then again, the history of army-barracks closures is criss-crossed with lines in the sand. Albert Reynolds said more than a decade ago that Connolly Barracks, in Longford, would close over his dead body. The final convoy departed in January 2009.

But for Penrose the threat to Columb Barracks carries a definite whiff of high noon. He has said the barracks is “part of me, part of our DNA”, and he is an honorary member of One, the organisation for ex-servicemen.

“He is traditional Labour to his bones, and he’s genuinely not an ambitious person,” says a source close to him. “This is not political cuteness. He’d be fierce stubborn. He’s not likely to resile from a position once he takes it. He’d walk away.”

Reared in a local-authority house in rural Co Westmeath, Penrose joined the Labour Party at the age of 13; he will mark 42 years of membership next Saturday. This is not a good time to test a traditional Labour man; the proposal to sell off part of the ESB is known to be particularly galling to him. He has also been fighting a serious illness, which makes him even less likely to suffer fools.

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