The Removal

The removal of Ruarí Ó Brádaigh to Sacred Heart Church in Roscommon occurred on Friday, 7 June 2013. The event attracted family and friends, comrades, and the Emergency Response Unit of the Garda Síochána. Although the presence of the police officers on church grounds was a surprise, they were primarily in the background and there were no confrontations.

Sacred Heart Church, Roscommon

The procession makes it way through Roscommon Town

Sunset as the procession makes its way to Sacred Heart Church

Arriving on the Church grounds.

Ruairí Ó Brádaigh enters Sacred Heart Church for the final time.

Among those in the procession were (from left): Richard Behal, a comrade from the 1950s, and Des Dalton, the President of Republican Sinn Féin.

Members of the Emergency Response Unit, on the edge of the crowd.