Ahern to unveil memorial to town’s Great War fallen

A MEMORIAL to 131 soldiers from a Cork town, who died in WWI, is to be unveiled on Sunday by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern.

Ahern to unveil memorial to town’s Great War fallen
Thu, 05 Oct, 2006 - 01:00
Sean O’Riordan

Three years of painstaking research by Fermoy man and former soldier, Paudie McGrath, were involved in the project.

He got the idea after visiting the USS Sullivan, named after five brothers — descendants of an Adrigole family — who lost their lives when their cruiser was sunk in 1942.

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