Edentubber Commemoration to take place this Sunday

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The annual Edentubber Commemoration will take place this Sunday afternoon, with assembly taking place at 12.15pm at the Carrickdale Hotel.

The event on the Armagh/Louth border remembers five Republicans who were killed during the 1956-62 IRA border campaign when a landmine exploded prematurely in 1957.

The five who died at Edentubber, a few hundred yards from the border crossing at Carrickarnon, and since known as the Edentubber Martyrs, included the owner of the cottage, 54-year-old Michael Watters; Paul Smith, 19-years-old, who was born and lived at the Gardens, Bessbrook; Oliver Craven, from Dominic Street, Newry; and Patrick Parle and George Keegan of Wexford.