How the State turned a blind eye to the Ballyseedy killings

IN RECENT years there has been outrage following reports into clerical abuse, as well as the publication of the recent report into the behaviour at Magdalene Laundries.

But today marks the 90th anniversary of one of a series of outrages committed by the Irish army for which nobody was ever heldresponsible, or even apologised.

The outrages were committed following the deaths of Captains Michael Dunne and Joseph Stapleton of Dublin Brigade, who were killed, along with three other Free State soldiers, in Knocknagoshel, Co Kerry, by a booby trap mine on Mar 6, 1923. Free State troops retaliated with a fury in the following days.