The widow s plea: An oft-forgotten victim of a famous Kilkenny ambush gone wrong Berni Egan has researched the story of the Friary Street Ambush - the 100th anniversary of which is today
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“At 9am he had his breakfast with me at own house in Upper Walkin Street, and went off to his work about 9.30am. I did not see him again alive.” Widow Bridget Dollard’s statement to Military Court of Enquiry, Kilkenny, February 22,1921.
Over the course of the next few minutes one man would die, and two would lie mortally wounded just feet away from where this family breakfast had just taken place.