My elder brother Carlos was a pal of Paddy (real name Robert) Blair Mayne (1915-55) – one of the prominent SAS men in the BBC TV series Rogue Heroes. Back in the 1950s, they went carousing together around the many Dublin pubs.
PBM was from a strict Presbyterian background, for which reason he would travel south at weekends to escape the austere Ulster Sabbath.
He was a boozer, a killer warrior (he told my brother he had dispatched Germans in the desert with
