TROUBLE FEARED IN IRELAND
MUCH FEELING CAUSED BY CORK RIOTS DEAD MAN A JJLUE SHIRT ROADS BLOCKED AM) WIRES CUT I' ''•'•" J'-' 1 .-:-' *SSi;r:Vil!.iv_nv tL K 1.1 r,l 0 TRt.K'.ai.v, h■—i;orvitioirr.) (Received August. 15, 9.-10 p.m.) CORK, August 15. Much feeling against the government has been aroused by the shootings on Monday. Members of tlvj League of Youth, wearing blue shirts. guarded the body of Michael Lynch, who was shot, throughout the day, in the mortuary chapel, while his relatives, knelt m prayer. Later thousands of people with heads bared passed the coffin Mr W. T. Cosgravc, General O'Duffy, and Mr Cronin, Blue Shirt leaders, arrived to. attend the funeral, as Mr Lynch was a member of the League of Youth. The ceremony is likely to be an imposing Blue Shirt demonstration. General O'Duffy will deliver a funeral oration. General O'Duffy visited the injured, of whom two are in a serious condition. The authorities fear further disturbances. Roads in the neighbourhood of Dublin and Cork are blocked with felled trees, and hundreds of telephone wires have been cut throughout the country. A letter box in Dublin was set on fire.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21244, 16 August 1934, Page 11
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