Commemoration being held to mark the 100th anniversary of Joe Leavy's death

An independent Republican commemoration will be held in Mullingar this Sunday April 24 at 2.30pm to mark the 100th anniversary of the shooting dead of IRA Volunteer Joseph Leavy from Gaybrook.

Joe Leavy was Company Adjutant of 3rd Battalion (Kinnegad) Mullingar IRA Brigade. Volunteer Joseph Leavy was one of the first Republican casualties of the Civil War before it even started, having been shot dead by Free State forces on Dominick Street after Republican volunteers surrendered their weapons to a large contingent of soldiers who had surrounded their vehicle and arrested them.

Joe Leavy fell in a hail of machine gun fire directed at them from the post office while under arrest. Adjutant Joseph Leavy was 36 years old when he died, staying true to All Ireland Republic to which he had sworn his allegiance.

On April 24, Joe Leavy will be remembered in his native Mullingar; the commemoration will assemble at the Fairgreen car park at 2.30pm and will march the short distance led by a Republican colour party and piper go to the roundabout at the Bank of Ireland. The main speaker for the commemoration will be Armagh Republican Cait Trainor.

All are welcome to this event