The Daily News (Perth, WA) 14th Dec. 1936 p5 (abridged)
Irish Volunteers leave Galway for Spain
Madrid rejects suggestion of Armistice – London, Sunday
The tramp of marching feet echoed in the dark streets of Galway, 127 miles from Dublin, last night, when 800 volunteers secretly assembled for service in Spain.
The men came from throughout Ireland to join General O’Duffy’s Irish brigade, which is reinforcing General Franco’s rebel army in Spain. The troops marched through the town, then embarked on a tender, which transferred them to a liner anchored outside the three-mile limit.
All were wearing Sacred Heart badges and other religious emblems. As the liner departed the men sang hymns. Additional large drafts will follow. Previous detachments totalling 200 have departed from Liverpool. Madrid Press does not support the British and French mediation proposals, and rejects the suggestion of an armistice.
Heavy snowfalls have paralysed operations at Santander, but loyalists claim an advance of nine miles in the Huesca sector.
The Burren and Beyond 