25th anniversary of Widow Scallans attack

This week marks the 25th anniversary of the death of IRA Volunteer Martin ‘Doco’ Doherty, who died defending a Sinn Fein function at the Widow Scallans pub in Dublin from a bomb attack by the UVF. The following is an extract about the attack from the book ‘Volunteer Martin ‘Doco’ Doherty – That’s the sort of me’.