Roddy's Bar Killings
Parkinson says that the RIC men were staying at the Central Railway Hotel at the corner of Townhall St. and Oxford St. – known locally as Roddy’s Bar – and notes that it showed the IRA’s capacity for accurate intelligence gathering. The IRA team included Rodger McCorley and Leo Murphy. The three RIC Reserve members had been attached to the Phoenix Park depot and Constable Gilmartin was due to give evidence in the trail of an IRA man accused of killing an RIC man in Tipperary. A few hours later, a Catholic Michael McGarvey was shot dead in his bed in Bray St., of the Crumlin Road. It was rumoured that senior police officers (including District Inspector John Nixon and Inspector Richard Harrison) were involved in this killing - they had shot him under the impression that he was Garvey, a barman who worked in Roddy’s Hotel, who they suspected of complicity in the shooting of the three RIC men.