Member Of First Dáil To Be Remembered This Weekend

The midlands TD was a known defender of those involved in the 1916 rising.

A midlands politician, who was a member of the first Dail, is being remembered one hundred years after his death. 

A plaque will be unveiled to honour Longford Westmeath Sinn Fein TD Laurence Ginnell in his hometown of Delvin.

He was known defender of those involved in the 1916 Rising,  and was a Sinn Féin MP in the British Parliament prior to taking his seat in Leinster House. 

Chairperson of Delvin Tidy Towns, Mick Kenny, says he had many achievements at home and abroad:

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