O'
Neill/De Barra Cumann
The O’Neill/De
Barra cumann is the Sinn Féin branch covering the south east of Cork City.
This includes the Cork South East City Council ward (incorporating Mahon,
Blackrock,
Ballinlough, and Ballintemple), as well as Douglas and Rochestown.
The cumann
is
named after IRA volunteers Diarmuid O’Neill, shot dead by London
Metropolitan
Police while unarmed and attempting to surrender during a raid in 1996,
and
Donnacha De Barra, who died on hunger strike in Newbridge Internment
Camp in
1923.
The
O’Neill/De
Barra cumann is currently re-organising and recruiting new members. If
you
would be interested in joining or helping in any way, contact Ken
Ahern
@
085-1751711.