 Buchanan drove away from the Dundalk Garda station after the meeting had ended at about 3.15 p.m. and turned off the main Dublin-Belfast road onto the Edenappa Road which is a minor rural road that passes through the village of Jonesborough.Buchanan was known by the British Army to regularly take this route when going to or from Dundalk Garda station.At around 3.40 p.m., they crossed the Northern Ireland border at Border Check Point 10 on the Edenappa Road.