East Clare Brigade Fighter To Be Honoured In Sixmilebridge

Padraig Óg Ó Ruairc

Dr Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc joined us live in studio to discuss the new monument which will be unveiled at Rath Cross, Sixmilebridge on Sunday (September 23).

The monument will honour Thomas Healy, the last member of the Irish Republican Army’s East Clare Brigade. After retiring from the police force in Ennis, Healy joined the IRA and died fighting the British forces near Sixmilebridge in 1921.

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