In 1985, Keith Byrne (age ten) and his best friend Noel Murray
(thirteen) were bored with Dublin and ready for adventure. Their favorite
American TV show was “The A-Team,” and they dreamed of meeting their favorite
actor, Mr. T. So, they cooked up a plot as bold and implausible as anything they’d
seen on the telly. As they went out to play, Keith’s mum said, “Don’t go too
far, dinner’s almost ready.” Keith promised not to. Keith lied. They took the
Dart to Dún Laoghaire and then sneaked onto a ferry to Holyhead. They dodged
ticket checkers on the train to London. Before long they were at Heathrow
Airport with nothing in their pockets but coins they’d nicked from a fountain. They
got on a flight to New York by telling security their parents were behind them.
They weren’t caught until they asked a New York cop for directions. Don’t you
love it when a plan comes together?
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