Who is robert byrne

Learn about our use of cookies, and collaboration with select social media and trusted analytics partners here Learn more about cookies, Opens in new tab. Drawing on deep expertise in marketing and sales, Robert partners closely with executives to drive commercial excellence across their businesses, with a focus on the opportunities and threats presented by digital technology. Working primarily in the financial services sector, he guides efforts to transform sales and pricing effectiveness, improve payments solutions and infrastructure, and refine product development approaches.

Since joining the firm in , he has served a broad spectrum of clients as they address the rapidly evolving financial industry landscape. And, while working in Botswana, I was able to spend some time travelling in Zimbabwe and Malawi. I am also on the committee for the Sussex Africa Centre, launched in September In the past, I coordinated the Technology and Development Group now, simply, the Development Group , which is a forum for internal seminars, feedback from critical friends and a place to share and discuss useful readings on development issues.

I am also one of the Sussex representatives on the Management Committee of the Low Carbon Energy for Development Network LCEDN , which is an international multi-stakeholder academics, private sector, NGOs, charities, policy makers network of those interested in low carbon energy and development. Close window. Byrne sussex. This person has not provided a contact address. Members of the rescue party lifted Byrne from the bed and assisted him out of the ward.

The shooting caused a major panic as patients, staff and visitors alike, rushed in all directions seeking shelter. The original car driver had been called away to another IRA operation and the replacement driver had not been fully briefed on the details of the plan and had driven the car to the rear entrance of the hospital rather than the main entrance where Byrne and his rescuers were waiting. When the IRA Volunteers realized that the car to take Byrne from the scene was not where they had expected they had to abandon plans for his removal to a Nursing Home in Limerick.

Instead they fled on foot it was only at this stage those assisting Byrne to escape noticed that he had been badly wounded and was bleeding heavily. The occupants of the trap were John Ryan of Knockalisheen and his wife Margaret. Upon examination it was found that Byrne had a large bullet wound on the left side of his body and the bullet had perforated his lung and the abdomen. Unfortunately Robert Byrne was beyond human help and he succumbed to his wounds at 8.

After the rescue most of the rescuers had scattered back to the city and only just in time as the police and military launched a huge search as news of the rescue became known. When eventually the remains of the twenty-eight year old, former postal clerk, were discovered all those in attendance were immediately arrested and a number of houses in the immediate area were raided.

Mrs Annie Byrne, the mother of Robert, was also among the people arrested and taken in for questioning. None of the five men had either hand act or part in the attempted rescue or the shooting of the policeman.

A measure of the temper of Limerick City on that Monday Evening was that when the prisoners were being taken into William Street Barracks a large crowd had gathered who cheered the prisoners and jeered the police.

The newspaper accounts state that the police baton charged the crowd and a number of people were injured. Whilst the decision to proclaim the city had been taken on Monday April 7 th it was felt that it would be better to hold off the implementation until the funeral of Robert Byrne was over.

Hemorrhage, peritonitis and shock were listed as the causes of death. Dr Humphreys, was also of the opinion that the bullet was fired in a downward direction and because of the scorch marks on the nightshirt it was fired from exceptionally close range. The inquest found that Robert Byrne had been shot dead at point blank range.

How Byrne came to receive the wound has often been a source of some controversy. The view of the rescuers was that Constable Spillane had deliberately shot the prisoner when he threw himself on top of him in the hospital ward.

This was also the version of events that Byrne himself related to Doctor John Holmes shortly before he died. At the inquest into Byrne death Mr Thomas Gaffney, the Crown Solicitor, stated that the bullet that killed Byrne did not come from a police revolver.