…go and see the new monument which will be unveiled at Rath Cross, Sixmilebridge o
The monument will honour Thomas Healy, Nanny’s uncle ,therefore Jacob,Rosie and Florence’s Great Great Uncle ,who was the last member of the Irish Republican Army’s East Clare Brigade. After retiring from the police force in Ennis, Healy joined the IRA and died fighting the British forces near Sixmilebridge in 1921.