Relatives of West Cork massacre victims seek help

A relative of Protestant victims of a notorious War of Independence-era triple execution linked to a bloody massacre has issued an emotional appeal for help tracing the bodies of the victims.

Martin Midgley Reeve, a great grandson of Thomas Hornibrook and a relation of Captain Herbert Woods, who were both shot alongside Thomas’s son, Samuel, in retaliation for the shooting in West Cork of IRA Commandant Michael O’Neill in 1922, said it would mean a great deal to his family if their remains could be found.

“When you haven’t got a grave, you have nowhere really to grieve,” Mr Midgley Reeve said during a visit to Cork yesterday. “I would appeal to anyone with information, if they do know where any bodies might be, to come forward.”