MEMORIAL WAS UNVEILED TO THE TWO VICTIMS
THERE was a big turn-out in Ardee in September 1955 for the unveiling of the memorial to Capt. Sean O’Carroll and Quarter Master Sergeant Patsy Tierney.
The council gave the site for the 13ft memorial. It is of ground limestone with a base of Wicklow granite and represents a Volunteer standing to attention.
The parade including many people from Belfast and other parts of the North, who travelled in special buses, started from the Fair Green headed by the Ardee Brass and Reed Band (under Mr. Paddy O’Brien), with a Belfast man, Mr. Dan McCarthy, carrying the colours. Members of the Dundalk Old I.R.A. provided the colour and filing party.
On arrival at John Street. Mr. Eugene Kavanagh. M.A., Central Model Schools. Dublin (a native of Ardee) performed the unveiling ceremony and this was followed by a decade of the Rosary in Irish by Very Rev. Canon Harmon, P.P..
. The band then struck up “A Nation Once Again.” while Mr. Patrick Kearney. Louth Co. Council Officer. Dundalk read the Proclamation of the Republic. Mr. John Doherty was Master or Ceremonies.
Present on the platform was Mrs Lennon, Belfast, a sister of Sean O’Carroll, and Miss Julia Lynch. Ardee, from whose home at Castle Street, he was taken out and shot. Relatives of Patsy Tierney were his step-mother, Mrs. Tierney, Tierney Street, Ardee, his brother Jack, living in Dublin; another brother Tom. and sister, Mrs. M. A. Lysagh, residing in the U.S.A. ; Mrs. M. Spillane, stepsister, Blackrock, Dundalk; and Margaret and Martin, step-sister and step-brother, both living in Ardee.