Clodagh Finn: Discovering a Longford woman who was a decorated veteran of three wars

Longford woman, Aileen Henrietta Moore, couldn't sit idly by during the Spanish Civil War, First World War and Second World War. Here's what she did despite her advanced years

Aileen Henrietta Moore was one of the often unheralded nurses who tended to victims of war.

At a time when three in four people think Ireland has taken in too many refugees, it is interesting to retrace the steps of Irish nurse Aileen Henrietta Moore, a decorated veteran of three wars.

She was already in her 60s when she ventured into the Spanish Civil War to help evacuate 4,000 children from the besieged city of Bilbao before it fell to General Franco’s forces in 1937.