Front page of the Connacht Tribune, with a report on the Rising in Co. Galway

The Connact Tribune newspaper reported “strange, serious and portentious [sic] happenings in Dublin”, and on the initially successful attack by a force of Irish Volunteers at Oranmore on Tuesday, 25 April 1916, where they captured six members of the Royal Irish Constabulary, but were then routed by a large force with superior fire power.