32 year old Robert Finbarr Tobin was walking with his wife Josephine along Washington Street on the night of January 5th 1923. They stopped by a fruit shop near the court house and purchased some fruit.
St Marys Villas, near the Erinville Hospital, Western Rd, home of Mr and Mrs Tobin.
As Mr and Mrs Tobin left the shop and turned from Washington Street onto Courthouse Street, three men on the street with revolvers fired 8 bullets at Mr Tobin.
The route Mr & Mrs Tobin walked from Washington St, to Courthouse St, the scene of his shooting.
A priest from the nearby St Francis Church heard the gun fire and screams from Mrs Tobin. He rushed out from the church and gave the last rites to the dying man.
Cork Courthouse Washington St. early 20th Century.
Mr Tobin had fought with the British Army in WWI. In 1919 he and his wife moved to Cork City where he worked in the City Pensions Office. In September 1922 he joined the transport corps of the Free State Army but it was only for five weeks before he went back to work at the pensions office.
No one claimed his murder even though many considered the Anti-Treaty IRA were responsible.
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