TD Mairéad Farrell to give oration at Drumboe Easter commemoration

Sinn Féin TD Mairéad Farrell will deliver the main oration at the annual Drumboe Easter commemoration on Sunday.

The Galway West TD, elected to Dáil Éireann in 2020, is the Sinn Fein spokesperson on Further and Higher Education, Innovation and Science.

Her aunt, also called Mairéad Farrell, was a member of the Provisional IRA who became one of three people killed by the British SAS in Gibraltar in March 1988.

Deputy Farrell will give the main speech on Sunday with the main commemoration starting at 3pm from Johnson’s Corner and proceeding to the monument on Stranorlar’s Main Street.

The Drumboe Martyrs, Charlie Daly, Sean Larkin, Daniel Enright and Timothy O’Sullivan were executed in Drumboe in 1923.

All four were Anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army Volunteers who lost their lives in the Irish Civil War. Officer Commanding Second Northern Division. They were captured when their safe house was surrounded by Free State Forces.

In January 1923 following a Free State Courts Martial, all four were sentenced to death which was carried out on the cold early morning of March 14, 1923, just six weeks before the ending of Civil War hostilities when the men were taken from their cells at the official Free State Army Headquarters at Drumboe Castle, Stranorlar.

There are a series of events across Donegal this weekend.

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Easter Saturday 19th April 2025: 1pm - Lifford, Bridge Street, commemoration; 4pm - Drumoghill, commemoration; 5.30pm- Falcarragh, Eithne Ní Cumhnail Monument, Bawan Bridge - wreath laying; 6pm - Presentation on Eithne Ní Cumhnail in Garadh Colmcille, Falcarragh.

Easter Sunday 20th April 2025: 9am - Clar, Clar graveyard, wreath laying; 10.30am - Glencolumcille, wreath laying; 11am - Aughnashinan, commemoration; Noon - Buncrana, Commemoration; Noon - Castlefinn, Commemoration; Noon - Drumkeen, wreath laying; Noon - Gweedore, commemoration; 3pm- Drumboe, main commemoration, Johnstone's Corner, Stranorlar, Speaker Mairéad Farrell TD.

Easter Monday 21st April 2025: 10am - Mountcharles, wreath laying; Noon - Abbey, wreath laying; 12.30pm -Carrigart, commemoration; 2pm- Ballymcgroarty, wreath laying; 3pm - Pettigo, commemoration; 3pm - Fanad, commemoration.