THE CORK RIOT

Grey River Argus, 16 August 1934, Page 5

THE CORK RIOT

Blue Shirts’ Activity MAY CAUSE MORE DISTURBANCES. (Ans. and N.Z. Cable (Received August 15 at 7.10 p.m.) CORK, August 15 Much anti-Government feeling was aroused as a result of the shootings at the riot against selling cattle. Members of the League of Youth, wearing their Blue Shirts, guarded Lynch’s body throughout the day in a mortuary chapel, while relatives knelt in prayer, and later thousands of people with heads bared, passed the coffin. Air Cosgrave, General O’Duffy’, and Commandant Cronin (Blue Shirt Secretary) have arrived to attend the funeral, as Lynch was a member of tho League of Youth, and the ceremony is likely to be an imposing Blue Shirt demonstration. General O’Duffy will deliver a funeral oration. General O’Duffy visited persons injured, of whom two are in a serious condition. The authorities fear further disturbances, as roads in the neighbourhood of Dublin and Cork are blocked with felled trees, while hundreds of telephone wires have been cut throughout the country, and a letter box in Dublin was set on fire.