Three other men were kidnapped Kidnapping and executed Killing in Bandon as revenge Revenge for the killing Killing of an IRA officer Michael O'Neill during an armed raid Attack .

However , in 2014 the `` Irish Times '' released Releasing a confidential memo from the then-Director of Intelligence Colonel Michael Joe Costello ( later managing Hold director of the Irish Sugar Company ) in September 1925 in relation to a pension claim Statement by former Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) volunteer Daniel O'Neill of Enniskean , County Cork , stating Statement : `` O'Neill is stated Statement to be a very unscrupulous individual and to have taken part Dispersal in such operations Military_operation as lotting [ looting Robbery ] of Post Offices , robbing Robbery of Postmen and the murder Killing of several Protestants in West Cork in May 1922 .

However , in 2014 the `` Irish Times '' released Releasing a confidential memo from the then-Director of Intelligence Colonel Michael Joe Costello ( later managing Hold director of the Irish Sugar Company ) in September 1925 in relation to a pension claim Statement by former Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) volunteer Daniel O'Neill of Enniskean , County Cork , stating Statement : `` O'Neill is stated Statement to be a very unscrupulous individual and to have taken part Dispersal in such operations Military_operation as lotting [ looting Robbery ] of Post Offices , robbing Robbery of Postmen and the murder Killing of several Protestants in West Cork in May 1922 .

It is generally agreed Agree_or_refuse_to_act that they were provoked Causation by the fatal shooting Use_firearm of IRA man Michael O'Neill by a loyalist whose house was being raided Attack on 26 April .