MnáMondays: Linda Kearns

Linda Kearns (right)a nurse from Sligo, helped the wounded during the Rising. In WoI, she moved guns, ammo & intel from Sligo to IRA HQ. Arrested in 1920, beaten, jailed in England & Mountjoy, Kearns escaped. Later elected to the Seanad but returned to nursing.

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