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GUNNED DOWN AND BURIED SIDE BY SIDE

THEIR AGES differ but their circumstance of death and final resting place are the same. Henry Byrne was a native of Knock Co Mayo Ireland. He was gunned down with colleague John F Morley as policemen responding to a bank robbery in the town of Ballaghadereen. He was laid to rest in July 1980 the tranquility of Knock Co Mayo, which town Pope John Paul 2nd had visited ten months previously.

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Uploaded on August 7, 2009
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