Remembering a principled Tipperary politician who died on Christmas Day at 38 years of age
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Remembering Joe MacDonagh, TD Joe MacDonagh, TD died on Christmas Day in 1922, at the age of 38, from complications with appendicitis he suffered while on hunger strike in Mountjoy Jail. Joe was the younger brother of the executed 1916 Rising leader Thomas MacDonagh. Joe was very active in Sinn Féin