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Mon 09 Sep 2008Eileen's tanked up for a rumble with the Romans and Vikings
EILEEN CURTIS once bought her husband a tank for Christmas. A 63-tonne Chieftain main battle tank to be precise. "It was very hard to wrap," she recalled yesterday. "So I just stuck a Christmas tree on top of it."
Seán Curtis now has two Chieftain tanks, with one parked in his back garden and the other in the front driveway of their home in the Curragh.
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