IRELAND

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 30 December 1922, Page 7

IRELAND

VIOLENT EXPLOSION.

REBELS CAPTURE GARRISON.

% , ■■•'■. . BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGHT LONDON, Dee. 29. A land mine plaeed near MeCullagh ' s music shop, in Dawson street, Dublin, destroyed the building and damaged others, the explosion shaking the city. No deaths are reported, but many were injured. MeCullagh is a.probable candidate for a vacancy in the Free State Senates

A bomb was thrown in Angier street, Dublin, while a tender nlled with Free State troops/was passing. No troops were injured, but a man and girl in the crowded street were seriously wounded. Free State troops surprised a party of seven rebels in a public-house at Clonakildy, Cpunty Cork. The first Free Stater to enter was shot dead, whereupon his comrades returned the fire and wounded one and seized three rebels. The other rebels then fired at the lamps and escaped in the darkness after a hand-to-hand struggle. A gun was found under the counter.

LONDON, Dee. 28. Irregulars captured the "' Free State barracks at Dowra, County Cavan. They disarmed ,the garrison, who were /Outnumbered and unable to offer qpp»^ .-, sition, and carried off two machine guns and a large quantity of rifles and ammunition.