THE CORK RIOT
O’DUFFY’S AGITATION. LONDON, August 15. The “Daily Mail's” Cork correspondent write: “I charge the administration with deliberately firing on unarmed people, apparently intending to kill ” said General O’Duffy, in the funeral oration on Lynch. He declared that Lynch was a martyr for the Free State, adding that, durdig the shooting there were 35 uniformed guards, and 12 members of the so-called Harriers special detective force. “In the name of the United Ireland Party I demand disbandment of this section of detectives.” He added: “Though there is a good harvest, the times are the wo'rst since the famine in 1846 T fear that no farmers iwill he able to meet the demands in 1935.”
Business in Cork was suspended f° r two hours. Ten thousand lined the streets. There were no incidents.
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Grey River Argus, 17 August 1934, Page 5
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