Thanks for all the help on this one. Its been a while since I was on roots chat. A correction on numbers. There were four people befriended by the Halpins. Sara Keely, Kathleen Lane. both from the Jacobs garrison and members of the Fairview Branch Cumman na Mban. O'rourke and Edward Lane also from the Jacobs garrison and members of the second battalion Dublin Brigade, Had they not gone into the shop and had continued up the road. It is possible that they would have lost their lives at the road block some few hundred yards up the road.