Last Sunday, January 31, marked the 100th anniversary of an incident at Mallow Railway Station that led to the deaths of three innocent railway workers, the single loss of life among railway workers during the War of Independence and Civil War.
The incident, known simply as The Mallow Shootings , was outlined in short video posted on YouTube presented by rail historian Peter Rigney of the Irish Railway Records Society.
He explained how on the evening of January 31, 1921 RIC district inspector Captain William H King was walking near Mallow Railway Station, (where the Cork County Council office are now located) when he was fired on by an IRA ambush party.