IRISH FREE STATE
MR “ TIM " HEALY'S RETIREMENT A COMPLIMENT TO ENGLAND. LONDON, January 8. (Received January 9, at 12.45 p.m.) ‘‘The English in my few years of office hflve never interfered in any Irish matter,” said Mr T. M. Healey at a banquet, tendered by the Executive Council, Dublin, on the eye of his retirement as Governor-General of the Irish Free State. Mr Cosgrave presided, and the Protestant and Catholic Archbishops of Dublin were present. Mr. Healy, in acknowledging the cascade of compliments, continued: “May 1 now be canonised. I have enjoyed this flattery, but. 1 am not such a 100 l as to believe it all. Old men are useful as undertakers. The country needs young men. You have heard the talk about our foreign King, but he is a gentleman. We know Ins pedigree. I wish we know as much about those who refer to hit interference in Irish af-taiM-P—JL and NJL and ‘Son'Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 19759, 9 January 1928, Page 6
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156IRISH FREE STATE Evening Star, Issue 19759, 9 January 1928, Page 6
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