IRISH AFFAIRS.
NO ENGLISH INTERFERENCE. EX-GOVERNOR’S CANDID CRITICISM. LONDON, January 8. “The English in my few years of office have never interfered in any Irish matter,” said Mr T. Healey (retiring Governor-General of the Free State) at a banquet by the Executive Council, at Dublin, on the eve of his retirement. Mr Cosgrave presided, and the Protestant and Catholic Archbishops of Dublin were present. Mr Healey, acknowledging a cascade of compliments, continued: “May I now be canonised. I have enjoyed this flattery. T 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. I wish we knew as much about those who refer to his interference in Irish affairs.”
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Grey River Argus, 10 January 1928, Page 5
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