Protests over Melville exhibit

MEMBERS of Republican Sinn Féin yesterday protested outside the Kerry County Museum in Tralee where an exhibition is being held on William Melville, founder of the British Secret Service.

About 12 people took part in the two-hour protest on the 90th anniversary of the passing of Kerry Fenian and freedom fighter Thomas Ashe, who died from the effects of forced feeding after a long hunger strike in September 1917.

The museum is located in the Ashe Memorial Hall, dedicated to the memory of Thomas Ashe, from Kinard in the Dingle Peninsula.