GANGSTERS IN FREE STATE
ALLEGED I.R.A. INFLUENCE.
CHARGES MADE BY BISHOP.
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.)
LONDON, Alay 2
Bishop O’Doherty, Bishop of Galway and Kilma cd'ua.gh, speaking at Galway, declared' that the Irish Republican Army was creating gangsters similar to those of Chicago. The Saor Eire was applying Bolshevik’ methods to the sab vati'on of Ireland. Be warned his hearers that they were committing a gri-evikras sin if they belonged to the Irish Republican.' Army, which should proclaim a republic at the election' if it wanted it. The.“huggermugger” of secretly armed gunmen was iniquitous because arms were employed for intimidation, private vengeance and armed robbery. Was it patriotism to kill.poor women in the debris of their own houses and injure little boys playing in the street?
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 4 May 1934, Page 5
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