Today marks the 100th anniversary of the assassination, of one of Ireland’s most well-known revolutionary figures
Michael Collins was shot in an ambush on this day in 1922, in Béal na Bláth County Cork.
The chairman of the Irish provisional government, army chief and Minister for Finance was just 31-years-old at the time.
Commemorations were held yesterday in Cork, with speeches from the Taoiseach and Tanaiste at the place of his death.
