IRISH JUDGE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 29, 4 February 1935, Page 7

IRISH JUDGE.

HARD ON CATHOLICS.

Sentences Influenced by Religion

Of Accused.

FREE STATE JURIST. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, February 3. The Dublin correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian" says that Mr. Justice Walsh, when trying cases of illicit whisky distilling in Donegal, where it is rife, ascertains the accused's religion. If they are Roman Catholics he imposes a more stern sentence on the grounds that they have violated both the civil law and the Church's commandment, as the Catholic bishops recently condemned illicit distilling. Judge Walsh, who* is himself a Roman Catholic, holds that the notion that Law Courts are concerned only with a man's civic and not liis religious duty is an unfortunate result of the British regime's secularism and must be corrected now. The Free State is essentially Catholic. ORANGEMEN RAIDED. DUBLIN LODGE ATTACKED. DUBLIN, February 3. Raiders broke into the Orange Hall, Ballyrea, near Armagh, and cut the Orangemen's drums to ribbons and destroyed the lodge's regalia and pictures. They attempted to blow up the hall with gelignite, but the fuse burnt out before the spark reached the explosive.