Cork footballer and Garda James Masters with a vintage Garda car and wearing an original 1922 era Uniform and looking on was Bandon Supt Eddie McEoin in the first car ever used by Bandon Gards a Model T Ford and with him was Brendan O'Donovan, Cormac Dineen and Ray Ryan. Pic: Denis Boyle
by Louise Roseingrave
THE FIRST Garda car to arrive in Bandon in 1962, a navy blue Ford Cortina, was among a collection of Garda memorabilia on display at Bandon Garda Station to mark the station’s 90th anniversary recently.
It was flanked by a 1961 Triumph – “a genuine Garda motorbike” according to Superintendent Eddie MacEoin and a Model T Ford dating from 1922 “the year we were formed.”
