Macroom has a new Sinn Féin cumann and, if its choice of name is anything to go by, they plan to stir things up on the local political scene.
The Seán Riobard Ó Suilleabháin Cumann is named after a 19th century agitator for land reform who was convicted (falsely, it is claimed) of murder and jailed for 20 years. After he emerged from prison, he took up where he left off and, by one historian s account, took part in the War of Independence.
Interestingly Seán Riobard Ó Suilleabháin, according to the book by his great grand-son, Barry Keane, was mostly active in Millstreet and Kilcorney direction, where he hailed from and where he was buried.