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TheCorkAdvertiser l 26th February 2021 

WELCOME 

WELCOME 

Its the start of Spring, flowers and trees start to come to life. With the drab darkness of 

winter behind us,it’s amazing how much more positive we can feel at this time of the year. 

We get a “Spring” in our step a yearning to be tidy, to fix and to sort things out. There is 

a recognition that we are alive, and more importantly,we have a life worth living, even 

in these troubled and turbulent times. This sometimes means we need to challenge 

ourselves to change rather than just going with the flow. 

There is a Persian saying that goes,” Go and wake up your Luck”. It seems that some 

people are born lucky. We all know them.....those people who lead charmed lives that 

luck seems to favour. So, what is it about those lucky ones that makes them so lucky? Some 

believe in it, others don’t. Many would call it chance, or an accident. However, it’s proven time 

and time again that luck is much more than fate playing favouritism for an elite few. Much of it depends on our 

attitude, our perseverance, our level of confidence, and our own willingness to make things happen. 

March, is coming when the luck of the Irish favours every one. Roll up your sleeves and create your own luck. 

Consider these ideas to help increase your chances. 

3 Listen to your instincts. 

3 Be opened minded. 

3 Go outside your comfort zone. 

3 Believe anything is possible. 

3 Stay focused. 

3 Work hard. 

3 Alter your destiny 

Smile and greet each day as a wonderful opportunity. Developing luck is entirely possible! It’s easy to blame a 

lack of luck on other circumstances. Every day brings another 24 hours and an opportunity to create our own 

luck. We don’t need 4 leaf clovers. This March, take some time to make your own luck. Embrace the Possibilities. 

As always, thank you for reading and allowing the advertiser be part of your month! Happy Mother’s Day March 

14th and Saint Patrick’s Day, March 17th. GIVE BACK TO YOUR COMMUNITY - BUY LOCAL !. 

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN 

Inspirational 

Confidence Story - 

Abraham Lincoln 

Did you know that Abraham Lincoln had two business ventures fail, lost 8 different elections 

and had a complete nervous breakdown before becoming president in 1816? His story is a great 

inspirational confidence story in that he shoves how if you just keep moving towards your 

dream, you will eventually make it. 

Abraham Lincoln overcame great setbacks and obstacles on his journey. Take a look at the and 

see whether you would have had the courage to continue on. 

1809 Born February 12 

1816 Abraham Lincoln’s family was forced 

out of their home and he needed to work to 

support his family 

1818 His mother passed away 

1828 His sister dies 

1831 A business venture failed 

1832 He ran for the State Legislature. He lost. 

1832 In the same year, he also lost his job. 

He decided he wanted to go to law school but 

couldn’t get in. 

1833 He borrowed money from a friend to 

start a business. By the end of the year, he 

was bankrupt. 

1834 He ran for the. State Legislature again. 

This time he won. 

1835 The year was looking better as he was 

engaged to be married. Unfortunately, his fiancee 

died and he was grief stricken. 

1836 This was the year he had a total nervous 

breakdown and for 6 mowbdaeridden. 

1836 He sought to become Speaker of the 

State Legislature. He was defeated. 

1840 He sought to become Elector. He was 

defeated. 

1842 Marries Mary Todd. They have 4 boys 

but only one would live to maturity. 

1843 He ran for Congress. He lost. 

1846 He ran for Congress again. He won and 

moved to Washington. 

1848 He ran for re-election to Congress. He 

lost. 

1849 He sought the job of Land Officer in his 

home state. He didn’t get the job. 

1850 His son, Edward, dies. 

1854 He ran for the Senate of the United 

States. He lost. 

1856 He sought the Vice Presidential nomination 

at a national convention. He got less than 

100 votes. 

1858 He ran for the Senate again. He lost 

again. 

1860 Abraham Lincoln is elected President of 

the United States. 

1862 His son, Willie, dies at age 12. 

1865 On April 14, Abraham Lincoln is assassinated. 








THERAPY & LAW 

YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU! ~ PART II 

This piece is continued from the previous edition. 

Will Reviews 

Most people ought to make a Will and all Wills should be reviewed (though not necessarily 

revised) at least every three years, or earlier if there is a change in family or personal circumstances, 

or if there have been significant acquisition or disposal of assets. In fact where the 

assets are substantial it may be advisable to conduct Will reviews annually with input from a 

tax consultant to keep abreast of any changes in the legislative or taxation regimes. 

The Cost Factor 

Put simply: you get what you pay for! Though cheaper options are available including 

homemade Wills bought in a stationary shop, it is always advisable to utilise the services 

of a solicitor well-versed in the field of Will-drafting. 

A Wills practitioner is in a better position to: - 

• Minimise the risk of your Will being challenged after your death. 

• Lead you through the process of determining your own wishes and preparing for most 

contingencies. 

• Advise on the obligations owed to spouses, civil partners, qualified cohabitants, children 

and any other relevant parties. 

• Advise on other steps that should be taken during your lifetime exempli gratia enduring 

powers of attorney; tax planning; the impact of family, company or partnership law upon 

your Will; etcetera. 

Depending on the complexity of the Will, the amount of advice required, and the amount of 

time expended in drafting, dealing with other advisors and taking instructions, a thorough 

Will can cost from a relatively low amount where the matter and proposed distribution is 

reasonably simple to more substantial amounts where the matter is intricate. Each client 

should always be advised at the outset of the likely or proposed fee. 

While the work undertaken and the fees expended are not normally of direct monetary 

benefit to the particular client, it is money well spent in the wider context of wealth creation 

and preservation and has the potential to save your loved ones considerably by avoiding 

or minimising the various legal and taxation difficulties and saving time, hassle and 

emotional distress. 

Making it Happen 

Having decided to make a first Will or review an outdated Will you should contact a solicitor 

well-versed in the field of Will-drafting. Prior to your appointment you should consider the 

following and prepare a list detailing: - 

• Whom you would wish to appoint as executors (to be responsible for carrying out the 

intentions expressed in the Will). 

• Whom you would wish to appoint as testamentary guardians, where appropriate (to take 

responsibility for the upbringing of children under the age of eighteen years). 

• Whom you would wish to appoint as trustees, where appropriate (to take responsibility 

for the management of an inheritance intended normally for children or people who would 

have difficulty in managing their own affairs). 

• Whom you would wish to benefit primarily (including full names and current addresses). 

• Whom you would wish to benefit alternatively if your primary beneficiary or beneficiaries 

pre-deceased you. 

• Your assets and liabilities. 

• Any other matters in respect of which you wish to make arrangements. 

Experience demonstrates that though often intimidating in prospect, once people overcome 

procrastination, the exercise of putting in place or updating a Will to deal with future 

eventualities, actually provides considerable comfort and peace of mind. 

This information is for guidance purposes 

only. It does not constitute legal or professional 

advice. Professional or legal 

advice should be obtained before taking 

or refraining from any action as a result 

of the contents of this publication. No 

liability is accepted by Hammond Good, 

Solicitors for any action taken in reliance 

on the information contained therein. Any 

and all information is subject to change. 

For further information on the subject, 

please contact the author, Richard Hammond, 

at richard@hgs.ie 







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A WOMAN OF SUBSTANCE 

Lynn Ruane (born 20 October 1984) is an Irish 

politician who has served as an independent 

Senator for the University of Dublin constituency 

in Seanad Éireann since April 2016. She was the 

President of the Trinity College Dublin Students’ 

Union from 2015 to 2016. 

Ruane grew up in Tallaght; she became a single 

mother and left school aged 15. After returning to 

education via An Cosán, she studied addiction and 

helped to develop local services for drug users. 

In 2012, she completed a foundation programme 

to allow access to a degree programme at Trinity 

College Dublin (TCD), and studied politics and 

philosophy. Having spent a year representing student 

parents on the Trinity College Dublin Students’ 

Union executive, she was elected as the union’s 

president on 12 February 2015, which gained 

national attention. As president, she was active in 

the Fossil fuel divestment campaign at TCD, and 

the campaign to repeal the Eighth Amendment. 

In December 2015, Ruane announced her intention 

to contest the 2016 Seanad election in the 

University of Dublin constituency as an independent 

candidate. She was elected to represent Trinity 

graduates in the Oireachtas on the 15th and final 

count, unseating incumbent Sean Barrett. She 

was re-elected at the 2020 Irish Seanad election, 

reaching the quota on the eighth count. 

possession. In February 2019, Ruane introduced 

the Criminal Justice (Rehabilitative Periods) Bill to 

the Seanad which proposed expanding access to 

spent convictions, where it passed unanimously. 

She was vice-chair of the special Joint Oireachtas 

Committee on the Eighth Amendment, which was 

established to examine the repeal of Ireland’s 

constitutional ban on abortion and recommend the 

legal grounds to access an abortion in Ireland. 

Miriam Lord of The Irish Times named Ruane her 

2016 Senator of the Year. 

In 2016, Ruane played a juror on the TV3 historical 

courtroom drama Trial of the Century. 

In September 2018, Ruane published a memoir 

entitled People Like Me. The memoir reached 

number one on the Irish paperback non-fiction 

charts and won the 2018 An Post Irish Book Award 

for best non-fiction. 

Ruane’s daughter Jordanne Jones is a DFCC awardwinning 

and IFTA nominated actress. 

In the 25th Seanad, Ruane sits with the Civil 

Engagement group; an alliance of independent 

senators seeking to bring civil society expertise and 

experience into the Oireachtas. 

In May 2017, Ruane introduced the Controlled 

Drugs and Harm Reduction Bill to the Seanad which 

proposed removing criminal sanctions for minor drug 





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The community of Mourne Abbey will commemorate the 

Centenary of the ambush at Mourne Abbey in a virtual 

manner as a result of COVID-19 restrictions on the weekend 

of the of the 13th of February it is intended to have a lighted 

candle on the window of every house in the parish, while at 

the war of Independence Monument, a wreath will be laid. 

The National flag will be at half-mast (dawn to dusk) on the 

13th, 14th and 15th of February. Mourne Abbey Heritage 

Assocasion are publishing a book entitled “The story of the 

Mourne Abbey ambush “on that weekend. This book will 

give a detailed account of the ambush before and after. 

by Court Martial. Patrick Ronayne and Tomas Mulcahy were 

found guilty and executed on 29. April 1921 and the others 

were found not guilty due to lack of evidence. 

This publication is the result of extensive research by John 

O’Regan with the assistance of Michael Looney, and other 

family members of those involved in the Ambush. The 

research also included the British army units involved and 

details from the public records office in Kew in Surrey. The 

15th of February is a historic day in Mourne Abbey. It was 

on that day that 53 young men were called upon to strike a 

blow for Irish freedom. 43 of them were from Mourne Abbey, 

mostly young farmers, 6 of whom would never see their farms 

again. The planned attack on an expected detachment of 

British troops went wrong when the crown troops became 

aware of the planned ambush. In response the British troops 

with the RIC and Black and Tans spread out around the 

countryside and engaged in a pincer movement to surround 

the IRA Volunteers. Were it not for a mistake or intentional 

decision for two lorries of troops to line the road from the 

railway bar to the Creamery rather than from the creamery 

to Monaparson cross many would have died. At the Burnfort/ 

Clogheen side of the N20, Patrick Flynn, Paddy Dorgan, 

and Edmond Creedon were shot dead. Michal Looney 

was wounded and died a week later. The men who were 

arrested, Patrick Ronayne, Tomas Mulcahy, Con Mulcahy, 

Batt Riordan, and Michael Creedon were charged and tried 

Within a short time, it was obvious that there was a traitor 

somewhere, after many enquiries it was believed that a man 

known as Shields was the likely culprit. Extensive research 

in the past couple of years indicates that this man was a 

William Shields who emigrated from England in 1922 to 

Australia where he began a new life, ending up in prison 

for the manslaughter of his wife after having eight children. 

Another casualty of the Mourne Abbey ambush was Major 

Compton Smith of the British army who was kidnapped in 

Blarney and held in exchange for IRA prisoners; Patrick 

Ronayne, and Tomas Mulcahy who were under sentence of 

death. When they were executed so too was Compton Smith. 



The most serious reverse suffered by a battalion of the 

Second Cork Brigade occurred a few miles from Mallow 

on 15th. February, 1921. 

Mallow Battalion Column, under Commandant Jack 

Cunningham, occupied a position about a mile south of 

Mourne Abbey. A conference of senior British officers was 

being held at division 

headquarters in Cork 

around that time and the 

intention was to attack a 

convoy travelling to or 

from the conference. 

Thirteen I.R.A. riflemen, 

were posted on the rising 

ground west of the main 

road. Sections armed 

with shotguns were 

also positioned on the 

eastern side of the road. 

Scouts were posted and 

all was ready by the early 

hours of the morning of 

15th. February. 

Cycling into Mallow on 

the Burnfort road that 

morning a local lady, 

Siobhan Lankford, 

encountered two lorry 

loads of troops and 

police. Aware that an 

I.R.A. operation was 

planned for Mourne 

Abbey she immediately 

became suspicious 

of the mission of the 

occupants of the two 

enemy lorries. When 

she reached Mallow she 

asked Daniel McDonnell, 

the Mallow Com pany 

I.O., to get to Mourne 

Abbey and warn the 

officers there. McDonnell 

cycled to Mourne Abbey along the main road and located 

battalion commandant, Tadg Byrne near the southern 

end of the ambush position. Together they crossed the 

Clydagh, a stream flowing parallel to and beside the road, 

to the position where Commandant Cunningham was with 

the riflemen. 

Within a few minutes firing started, to the north east of the 

ambush position. Protective sections there were engaging 

British troops. Reports came in indicating the presence of 

enemy forces on three sides of the position. Suddenly the 

column found that it was in the role of ambushed rather 

than ambusher. The British forces were equipped machine 

guns and armoured vehicles. In the circumstances the 

column was forced 

to withdraw, fighting 

its way out as best it 

could. Sections to the 

west of the road were 

lucky in that one British 

detachment was slow 

in taking up position, 

leaving a gap through 

which they were able 

to retreat westward 

towards Dromahane. 

L/R: Teddy Dorgan, Michael Looney, Paddy Dorgan, 

Paddy Creedon. All nephews of those young men who died 

in the ambush. “Ni beidh a leitheid ann aris” 

However, the sections on 

the eastern side, where 

the first shots were fired, 

fared badly. Three men 

Patrick Flynn, Monee, 

(aged 25), Patrick 

Dorgan, Island, (22) 

and Eamon Creedon, 

Clogheen, (20) were 

shot dead. Another man, 

Michael Looney, Island, 

(30) died later of his 

wounds,. Eight prisoners 

were taken, of whom 

two were subsequently 

executed at Cork. They 

were Patrick Ronayne, 

aged 24, of Greenhill 

and Thomas Mulcahy, 

Toureen, aged 18, both 

of whom were members 

of the Burnfort company. 

It was discovered some 

time later that it was an 

informer by the name of Dan Shields who gave details 

of the position of the ambush to the British authorities. 

Shields was also responsible for a raid, two weeks later, 

on two republican columns at Nadd, near Banteer in 

which three volunteers lost their lives.

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