BLUE SHIRT DEMANDS

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 280, 23 August 1934, Page 9

BLUE SHIRT DEMANDS

Disbandment of Special Civic Guards SINGLE STATE FAVOURED By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. (Received August 22, 5.5 p.m.) Dublin, August 21. The Blue Shirt Congress, in secret session, unanimously passed a resolution demanding the immediate disbandment of the “political body of Fianna Fail gunmen known as the Civic Guards’ special branch, which is. conducive to anarchy.” It was the special branch which allegedly fired on the crowd at Cork on August 13. Another resolution demanded that the Government immediately transfer from Cork “police officers who prominently figured in uncalled for attacks on unarmed citizens following the dastardly shooting on August 13.” The congress also favoured the continuance of efforts to establish a single Irish State, enabling people to live under one Government, republican or monarchical, as they may decide. TARA AS CAPITAL Blue Shirts’ Resolution Dublin, August 21. The Blue Shirks Congress passed a resolution in favour of the restoration of Tara as the capital of the Irish nation for functions such as the inauguration of President and Governor-Gene-ral ; also as the place where the suggested Palace of Victory should be built.