FF foot soldiers come under heavy crossfire

WHAT would one of the most fabled leaders of the 1920s Republican forces think of this country being baled out by the British?

That was the first shot fired as civil war broke out again in Cork County Council yesterday.

Labour’s Cllr John Gilroy had a Fianna Fáil victim firmly in his scope — it was Cllr Frank O’Flynn, chairman of the General Liam Lynch national commemoration committee — who must have felt as his hero did moments before he was shot dead by Free State troops on the Knockmealdowns.