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My grandfather,  Peter Gaffney and his older brother Thomas Gaffney, were both arrested and imprisoned for their part in the burning of the custom house. They were both from a Na Fianna Eireann background and I believe their father was a railway man out of Wexford and former IRB and  IRA man. I believe he was also arrested on the job when he gave away his cover by ordering the civilians to lie low before they hit an ambush while the train was carrying troops. It was also told that Thomas was a runner in 1916  during the rising and was a first aider in the GPO.  We have the combat medals at home for both, but none from the Easter rising. They lived in west Dublin but I know little else. They must have been highly trusted as many leaders of 1916 including Pearse used to come round to tea.