When I was young, only seventeen, I walked the hills and pathways green,I knew not of life; of care had none And the boy who loved me was tender, and young.
En septembre 1944, l'opération du maréchal Montgomery débute malgré le désaccord du général américain Patton. Il s'agit d'un coup décisif afin de précipiter la chute du IIIe Reich. Pour cela, il faut s'emparer des six principaux ponts sur le Rhin et les tenir afin de faire franchir les blindés et l'infanterie. L'opération sera la plus grande opération aéroportée jamais réalisée à cette époque mais n'en sera pas moins un échec cuisant, les alliés perdront près de 17 000 hommes.
Deasey is a dreamer - torn between earning his precarious living as reporter on the London end of a Dublin paper, and writing the 'Great Irish Novel'. Perhaps a meeting with old friend, pop-star Noel, will clarify things in his unclear mind? But then again, perhaps it won't.
This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many business ventures, Arthur would regularly hire Terry out as a minder or bodyguard, later replaced by nephew, Ray Daley.