MnáMondays: Máire Comerford

Máire Comerford, from Wexford (centre). During the Civil War Comerford was shot at by Free State soldiers but escaped on her motorbike. Later she was arrested & imprisoned for trying to kidnap Taoiseach W.T Cosgrave. She escaped but was recaptured & shot in the leg.

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