FOUGHT IN VAIN FOR HUSBANDS’ LIVES.
FREE STATE GRANTS TO WIDOWS LONDON. May 4. The Minister of Finance announced in the Irish I>. il '• ■ : y that gras t of £2IOO had been made to Mrs George Clancy and £3600 to Airs _ Michael O'Callaghan, whose husbands were murdered at their 1 mes in Limerick in ; March, 1921. • Clan< ' . who w; ; Mayi - oi Lurcndc, Mr.; Clancv threw hcr.se!. upon : .rhu>■ hand and tried to shield !:im fr*-:n ti. bullets < f t'.-.c assas.ins. When jfie ie'’ .vunded, they she* her husband dead. Mr Michael O'Callaghan was the exMayor of Limei hour before Alderman f la:i cy. Mrs O’Callaghan also struggled to save he.r husVian !, fighting the raiders in the had * oi her house. She clung to her hu*- | band when the raiders tried to reach him, but was torn away.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17570, 22 June 1925, Page 4
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