Our Taoiseach needs to get his facts right

Yet again I am fit to be tied.

Our Taoiseach needs to get his facts right

Taoiseach Enda Kenny refers to Thomas Kent as “one of many young men who, in the pursuit of the goal of Irish freedom, paid the ultimate sacrifice”.

Thomas Kent was born in 1865 — making him 51 at the time of his execution.

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