Bridget Foley ‘carried and delivered goods that could have cost her life’

A Cumann na mBan courier was involved in a daring but unsuccessful attempt to deliver a key message to the local Irish Volunteers command on Easter weekend, writes Niall Murray

Bridget Foley died in Cork in 1970, aged 83 and reliant on her pension for military service during the Easter Rising and War of Independence.

While she had grown up in Dublin, it was in the southern capital that she played a daring but unsuccessful attempt over Easter weekend 1916 to deliver a key message to the local Irish Volunteers command.