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font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">After
the 1916 rising, a British Destroyer landed troops at Skerries to help the
Dublin garrisons suppress the rising. 200 men of the North Staffordshire
Regiment landed under the command of Captain Clay. To try to impede their
progress to Dublin, local rebels blew up the bridge over the railway in Donabate
