Ambush at Pallas
The 11 policemen killed were Con Samuel Adams, Con George Bell, Con John Bourke, Con Michael Doyle, Con Patrick Foody, Con William Hayton, Con William Kingston, Con Sidney Millin, Con Bernard Mollaghan, Con Arthur Pearce and Con Henry Smith. Only two survived by escaping. The ambush was a joint operation of the flying Columns of the East and Mid Limerick Brigades IRA (some forty riflemen) under the command of Donnocha O'Hannigan O/C of East Limerick Brigade Flying Column. (Dick O'Connell, O/C of the Mid-Limerick Flying Column was also present and a section leader.) Some time earlier the police had discovered the arms dump of the Mid-Limerick Brigade. There was only one IRA man (Liam Hayes) wounded. The I/O of the Mid Limerick Brigade, John Purcell, had sussed out the travel pattern of the RIC patrol.