CLICK NEXT> FOR NEXT PIC Cathaoirleach Fidelis Doherty and Margaret Whelan Seven community groups and a local volunteer hero were honoured at the inaugural.
Seven community groups and a local volunteer hero were honoured at the inaugural Kilkenny Community and Voluntary awards. The awards, which were a collaboration.
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A summer journey fills the pockets with scraps of nothing and bits of everything. The boarding coupon for seat 33F. A receipt for two crunchie bars, a ticket from that play in Galway, a few 20-pence pieces, a flat lake stone for skimming. And that slip of paper, scrawled with the name Dad mentioned as we traveled through Ireland in July.
“No one slept. Eight of us in the one car. We drove all night from Sneem to Cobh, May 19, 1949,” said Dad. “The tender left for the ship at 11 a.m. It was an old troop carrier. Frank sent me the ticket from Rhode Island.”
Avenge
To avenge his death, the local IRA ambushed an RIC patrol near Keadue, resulting in two officers’ death.
The ambush and deaths enraged the Crown forces, who instigated intense patrols over a wide area locally.
On March 26, Joe Molloy, his father George and three brothers, John James (18), Paddy (16) and George (10), were spreading farmyard manure in a field behind their home.
After their father had returned to the farmyard for another load of manure, the boys saw the soldiers approaching.
Confusion and debate surround what happened next.
Patricia Molloy, Joe’s niece, gives the following account: “When the Molloy boys saw the soldiers lifting their guns as if to fire, they hit the ground.