Eilish Stack, a married generalist microbiologist, is living in Southern Ireland with her husband Larry Stack, e deputy general secretary of the Teachers’ Union of Ireland, and four children when they receive an evening knock on the door. Two men stand outside, inquiring after Larry, and tell him to call at his earliest convenience. The men are detective inspectors, Stamp and Burke, from the “Garda National Services Bureau (GNSB)”, a part of the new and increasingly tyrannical government. The National Alliance bought the GNSB in to replace the Special Detective Unity after they came to power – a sort of secret police in the state.
Larry explains that they are probably building a case against another teacher, and need intel, and so he agrees to call them up tomorrow and show them that he has nothing to hide.
Larry drives to the Kevin Street Garda Station. Burke explains that an allegation of utmost importance has been received and directly concerns Larry. The Detectives further explain that an Emergency Powers Act has recently come into effect in response to the ongoing crisis facing the state. This act gives supplemental provision and power to the GNSB to maintain public order. Hence, they explain that any agent working against the state is an enemy and that Larry must examine his conscience to ensure that this is not the case. Larry rebuts this with the fact that as a senior trade unionist, his job is to engage in peaceful industrial action to defend the rights of teachers, and that this has nothing to do with the “so-called crisis” faced by the state. He leaves.
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