Such a Pleasant Sunday Afternoon!
IRISH STATUE DRAPED WITH BLUE SHIRT
United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received. Monday, 9 p.m. LONDON, June 10. A pleasant Sunday afternoon ■was spent in Galway city in connection with the unveiling of a statue commemorating Padraig O’Conaire, scholar, author and philosopher, hut the gravity of the proceedings was upset hy the discovery that a practical joker of O’Duft'yitc leanings had clad the statue in a blue shirt. The meeting had barely composed itself when the platform bearing President de Valera and thirty other notables collapsed, precipitating them in a struggling heap. Nobody was seriously hurt. President de Valera was unhurt.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 135, 11 June 1935, Page 7
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