John Martin Heanue

Died

5 March 1920

Age

Rank

Constable

Force

Royal Irish Constabulary

Cause

Homicide - Shot

Duty Status

On Duty

Roll of Honour Citation

Died the morning after he was shot when several men tried to disarm him and a colleague while on patrol.

Roll of Honour Citation

Died the morning after he was shot when several men tried to disarm him and a colleague while on patrol.

Circumstances

Shot and fatally wounded as he called at a village grocers shop.

Died the morning after he was shot and fatally wounded when several men tried to disarm him and another Constable as they called at a grocer’s shop while on patrol in the village of Ragg, near Thurles in County Tipperary.