Seán Sabhat honored in Limerick City

Pádraig Malone, Tom Collopy and Cllr Maurice Quinlivan

More than 150 people braved inclement weather on Sunday 3 January to attend the annual commemoration of the death of Seán Sabhat, which was organised by Limerick Sinn Féin. Sabhat, along with his comrade, Feargal O’Hanlon, was fatally shot in an IRA raid on Brookborough RUC Barracks, County Fermanagh on New Year’s Day, 1957.
The march assembled in Bedford Row, and led by a republican colour party and the Carrick-On-Suir Republican Flute Band, proceeded to Sabhat’s grave in Mount St. Laurence Cemetery.  
The ceremonies at the graveyard were chaired by Cllr Maurice Quinlivan, and the main speaker was Limerick City Sinn Féin Chairperson Pádraig Malone, who stood in at short notice for party Vice President Mary Lou McDonald who was unable to make the journey due to the adverse weather conditions.
Cllr Quinlivan concluded the commemoration by urging all those present at the commemoration “to join Sinn Féin and build support for the party’s aim of achieving Irish Unity and a fairer society.”

The Carrick-On-Suir Republican Flute Band