From what I have read the allied pilots were allowed to " disappear " over the border but the Irish kept the aircraft for themselves
Tis a sticky subkect the Irish in WW2 where nuetrality is concerned
Lots of breakages for both warring sides
Makes some interesting reading
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Eire did not get off totally scot-free. One set of lost German bombers mistook Cork for Cardiff and bombed it. Dublin was also lightly bombed on a number of occasions. On each occasion, the Eire government swallowed hard and let it pass.
Again, Eire viewed its policy of neutrality with some artistic license. For example it permitted British and US planes to overfly county Donegal on their way to bases in Fermanagh and when British airmen crashed in Eire they were quietly escorted to the border, while German pilots were interned
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