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From the past twenty one years I have been researching and recovering the history and purpose of the Radio Security Service operation in Northern Ireland with a fair amount of success. Only one question remained unanswered. What were the names of our local Voluntary Interceptors? Today that question had been answered in part through a follow up to a story told by the daughter of a VI and the son of another VI. Here in Northern Ireland our VI's were given a Home Guard uniform as a cover for their work, but they were not in the Home Guard as such. They taught CW to others in the Home Guard and also to military cadet organisations in their spare time. Young men and women who if they joined His Majesty's forces would bring a skill to their service. Some years ago I came across a Closed file within the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland giving the details of the Home Guard at various Vunerable Locations. Among them was Gilnahirk Radio Station. Today a copy of that closed file was given to me and it has proved to be the answer to my question. Eighty years on from the end of World War Two I have finally obtained the names, and addresses, of our local Belfast area VI's. I shall in time reveal more, but for me this has been the icing on the cake for these 80th VE Day celebrations. I shall reveal more in the days ahead.