IRISH AFFAIRS
NO INTERFERENCE BY ENGLAND
MR. TIM HEALY’S TRIBUTE TO THE KING By Telegraph.—Press association. Copyright. London, January 8. “The English in my few years of office have never interfered in any Irish matter,” said Mr. Tim Healy, Governor-General of the Irish Free State, at a banquet by the Executive Council in Dublin on the eve of his retirement. Mr. Cosgrave presided, and the Protestant and Catholic Archbishops of Dublin were present. Mr. Healy, acknowledging a cascade of compliments, continued: “May I now be canonised. I have enjoyed this flattery, but I am not such a fool as to believe it. All old men are useful as undertakers. The country needs young men. You have heard talk about ‘our foreign King,’ but he is a gentleman. ■ We know his pedigree. 1 wish we knew as much about those who refer to his interference in Irish affairs.”—A.P.A. and “Sun.”
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 86, 10 January 1928, Page 9
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149IRISH AFFAIRS Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 86, 10 January 1928, Page 9
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