Plaque unveiled for ‘forgotten volunteer’

can move ahead with good, transport led planning, facilitating vital affordable new housing along the route.

“I look forward to the DART+ Programme rolling-out further in the coming years. We’ll start this with the delivery of the first batch of 90 new DART carriages arriving next year. This will see new DART services between Drogheda and Dublin city from early 2025, before then expanding to other areas including Hazelhatch and Celbridge.”

DART + South West is part of the multi-billion euro DART+ programme that will treble the present DART network from 53km to 150km.

This will mean it will now extend the DART outwards to Drogheda, Maynooth, and as far as Celbridge.

It comes as as the Government expects that the number of people living within 1km of a DART station will increase hugely from about 250,000 at present to 600,000 in the near future.

THOMAS Bryan, one of the ‘Forgotten 10’ volunteers, has been memorialised by a Dublin City Council Commemorative Plaque at 14 Henrietta Street.

Bryan, a 24 year old electrician, was amongst a group of young volunteers who on 1 January 1921, set out to ambush Black and Tans as they travelled into Dublin city from Gormanstown. Having been spotted in Drumcondra, the party tried to escape via Gracefield Road and Clonturk Park, but surrendered after one of the men was shot and killed.

Tried and found guilty of High Treason, four of the men, Patrick Doyle (29);

Dublin’s Lord Mayor Caroline Conroy with Jimmy Phillips aged 91 who is Thomas Bryan’s nephew and former resident of 14 Henrietta Street where the plaque is located

Francis Xavier Flood (19); Thomas Bryan (24), and Bernard ‘Bertie’ Ryan (21) were hanged at Mountjoy Prison.

Dublin’s Lord Mayor Caroline Conroy unveiled the plaque with Jimmy Phillips (91), Thomas Bryan’s nephew and former resident of 14 Henrietta Street.