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3 unusual facts about Timothy Coughlin


Timothy Coughlin

On July 10, 1927, the three surprised Justice Minister Kevin O'Higgins on his way to Mass at the Booterstown Avenue side of Cross Avenue in Blackrock, County Dublin and shot him down.

Timothy ("Tim") Coughlin (sometimes spelled "Couglan") (1906 - 1928) was a volunteer in the Irish Republican Army, mainly known for his part in assassinating Kevin O'Higgins in 1927 and for the controversy surrounding the circumstances of his death in 1928.

The second-eldest in a family of nine, Coughlin lived with his parents in the family home in Inchicore, Dublin.



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