Joe Dolan was a Dubliner who was always armed with a .45. For Joe Dolan, it was all a simple matter: ‘We had to learn to kill in cold blood and we got used to it. ’
1920 Mar 2. Dolan was involved in the shooting of Jameson
1920 Nov 21. Todd Andrews was certainly outraged with the behaviour of the men from the squad that day. ‘There were only women and children in the rest of the house but that did not prevent the pair from the squad behaving like Black and Tans.’ Joe Dolan started a fire, whether by intention or accident, which took the rest of the men a half an hour to put out.Joe Dolan was so disgusted at finding that one prime target, Noble, a colleague of Hardy, was missing when he burst into his room, that he took revenge by giving his half-naked mistress “a right scourging with a sword scabbard”, and setting fire to the room, whether by intention or accident, which took the rest of the men a half an hour to put out. What Andrews failed to mention in his book was that Joe Dolan beat the half-naked woman who was in Captain Noble’s bed and stole all of her rings. Naturally Dolan remained silent about it in his Bureau statement too. But then Joe Dolan had shot the porter of the Wicklow Hotel one morning and then went back there in the afternoon to eat his lunch
Coming away from the house they met Tom Keogh bringing back Billy McLean to North Richmond St, where he lived