[1] He was part of a party of IRA volunteers keeping watch outside a meeting at 144 Brunswick Street that included Seán MacBride.

During the fight an IRA volunteer, Leo Fitzgerald, was killed, as were Constable James O'Farrell and Cadet Bernard Beard of the Dublin Metropolitan Police.

[1] Mark Grant-Sturgis, the Assistant Under-Secretary for Ireland, wrote:Traynor, captured red handed with an attacking party when Auxiliaries were killed in Brnswick Street, was executed this morning.

I don't think they will make much fuss as there is no sort of 'alibi' business this time - nor is he the usual 'youth', dear to 'The Freeman', as he is over 40 and has a pack of children, the poor deluded idiot.

[7] Another IRA volunteer, John Donnelly, captured with Traynor was sentenced to death but later reprieved by David Llyod George following the truce in June 1921.