Irish Volunteers were trailed around Cork by Royal Irish Constabulary on a miserably wet Easter Sunday 1916, writes Niall Murray

Sonny O’Neill, the man believed to have killed Michael Collins at Béal na Bláth, described being there when applying for a military pension 13 years later — but said nothing about the gunfight or firing the fatal shot.

IN his feature article headlined ‘Sectarian wind up’ (Irish Examiner, June 26), Niall Meehan seems either to ignore or conveniently forget the facts surrounding the killing of Protestants in the west Cork area in the 1920s.

EXACTLY 80 years ago, on December 7, 1922, Sean Hales, TD, was shot dead on his way to a Dáil meeting. This barbaric act occurred a day after the formal establishment of the Irish Free State.