Guesthouse with historic links

The official opening of Belleek Fort Guesthouse in Ballyshannon, County Donegal on Wednesday 25 August also marked, to the day, the 80th anniversary of the handing over of the Belleek Fort to the Irish Free State soldiers by the British Army. The Fort had been occupied in the 1920s by the British Army, the Irish Free State Army and the anti-Treaty IRA. It was captured by the British Army on 7 June 1922 and handed back to the Irish Free State Army on 25 August 1924. The Fort was under the command at one time of Captain Thomas Daly, father of Bishop Edward Daly.

• Pictured are Mick McMahon, Sinn Féin Councillor, Bundoran; Sean McCrory, Belleek Fort Guesthouse; Thomas Pringle, Sinn Féin Councillor, Killybegs; Steve Huggett, Sinn Féin Councillor, Garrison; Patricia McCrory; PJ Bramley, Sinn Féin Councillor, Ballyshannon; and Nicola McCrory.