CONTEMPT OF COURT
: IRISH JOURNALIST IN PRISON , PreM'Awociation—By Telegraph—Copyright. r DUBLIN,' January 15. (Received January 16, at 1.5 p.m.) ' The* tribunal refused to release Mr Dennighan. .’-.‘[At the resumption* of* the Cronin trial on December 29,‘ Mr. Joseph‘ Den-; ningan, political correspondent fdr the ‘lfish Press,’ declined -as; a matter ;of privilege to disclose the official sbui’ce whence bo obtained confirmation of the news that i members’of' the Young Ireland Association -would-;,he . allowed a short period in which’ to- cease their m'embership. The president disallowed the i>lea of privilege, and permitted. Mr DeWnigan to •communicate „with., his: 'editor, who said that disclosure, would be ;a breach of confidence. Mr Denningan -therefore persisted in his refusal? and was sentenced to - a month s imprisoment for contempt of court.]
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Evening Star, Issue 21620, 16 January 1934, Page 10
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