Peter Callanan (Fianna Fail)

Deputy Michael Ahern. Perhaps I should not have mentioned it. However, as the Leader asked me, I responded.

His penultimate request was that an Irishman would not be asked to shoot him, which was granted. He was also a member of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association and asked the attending priest, Fr. Sexton, to return his pioneer badge to his curate in Castlelyons, Fr. Ahern. It is also fair to remember that two of his brothers, as well as his aged mother, were taken prisoner early on the morning of 2 May. It would be appropriate for Members to remember that today, 9 May 2006, is the commemorative date for the events of 9 May 1916.