thanks for coming back to me Eric, I have done the Kilmainham Tales, its not clearing things up . I have a witness statement from one of the Priests who attended the Leaders and condemned men, now he claims Seán Heuston was directed towards a crate to sit on when he was brought out to the yard to be shot. Now we know Heuston was not injured in the Rising. At Kilmainham Goal, they tell you that Eamon Ceannt was the only one shot sitting down, because he was so tall? Connolly had to be strapped to the chair/ Crate, we know that as he was unable to support himself because of both injuries he received during the rising , one being a leg wound and the other in the arm. I have always thought that if you where being shot, you where tied to a post, so that if you fainted you were still upright, and when there was no post , you sat on a crate of sorts and spread you legs to balance you. Also these men were the first to be shot in Kilmainham, before that you were hung, so there was defiantly no post.