P. A. Ó Síocháin

[1] He was educated at Kanturk National school, Rochestown College, Cork, and the University of London, receiving a diploma in journalism in 1923.

It was highly professional in layout and literary standards, providing a medium for conveying the views of the government and the commissioner to the force.

[4] During the war emergency (1939–1946) he served as Local Defence Force (LDF) area company leader and on the district HQ staff, as well as initiating and directing a parish council movement for the distribution of 10,000 tons of turf peat fuel and 750 tons of timber supplies from the Dublin and Wicklow Mountains to south Dublin homes during the war rationing period on a unique share system.

[1] In 1952, he acquired a company, Galway Bay Products Ltd., from a Dublin client Norman Baillie-Stewart, to develop, market and export hand-knitted Aran Islands's knitwear,[7] pioneering in the later 1950s and early 1960s the big sales boom of Aran sweaters and cardigans to the United States and Canada,[8] later adding a similar range of County Wexford Loch Garman handknits, expanding his markets further in the 1970s to include Europe, Australia, and, significantly, Japan.

Elsewhere he furthered the fishing industry by providing two modern fishing trawlers in the 1970s under his company Shannon Atlantic Fisheries Ltd.[11] He was a member of Fianna Fáil from the early 1930s, having been County Dublin's Fianna Fáil director at the 1948 general election achieving one of their best returns, but abandoning them in 1952 due to their lack of interest in furthering the Irish language.

[1] He became an excellent low handicap golfer, winning many local tournaments, was a year-round Dalkey-Forty-foot swimmer and qualified to pilot aircraft out of Weston Airfield and gliders out of Baldonnel.

[13] In the early 1930s as members of the Dublin and District Motor Club, he as navigator, his wife Marjorie as driver, won many road rally trophies.