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Line 97: There were also three garrison battalions and the Coastal Defence Artillery forts at Cork, Bere Island, Donegal, Shannon and Waterford. The Irish Defence Forces, regular and reserve, were an all-volunteer force. If the Germans had landed where the ~~British~~Irish and ~~Irish~~British expected them to, they would have been engaged by the Irish Army's Fifth Brigade who had primary responsibility for the defence of Waterford and Wexford. They would have been soon supported by General [[Michael Joe Costello]]'s 1st Irish Division from Cork and General [[Hugo MacNeill (Irish soldier)\|Hugo MacNeill]]'s 2nd Division. The British would establish their railhead near the [[Fairyhouse]] race course and be given billets at [[Lusk, Dublin\|Lusk]], [[Howth]], and [[Portmarnock]] north of Dublin. The [[Irish Air Corps]] consisted largely of nine [[Avro Anson]] light bombers and four [[Gloster Gladiator]]s, which provided the only fighter defence for the country. However, in 1940 six second-hand [[Hawker Hind]]s were added to the Air Corps and later in the war the Irish cannibalised and repaired several Allied aircraft that had crash landed in their territory, eventually putting two RAF Hurricanes, a [[Fairey Battle]] and an American [[Lockheed Hudson]] into service. From 1942 onwards a total of twenty [[Hawker Hurricanes]] entered Irish Air Corps service.

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