DIVORCE IN IRELAND.
FREE STATE TO DEBAR. DAI L CARRIES MOTION. RULES TO BE FRAMED. Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright J (Received 5.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. DUBLIN. Feb. 11. The Dail to-day debated tho question of divorce in the Irish Free State. The President, Mr. W. T. Cosgrove, moved a motion to instruct the Standing Orders Committee to set up rules which would debar divorce, a vinculo matrimonii. Mr. Cosgrave said the majority of Southern Irishmen held that the marriage sacrament could not be dissolved. Any attempt to legalise divorce would strike at tho root of Irish social life. Professor Thrift urged that the motion was not fair to the Protestant minority. It would, he said, be a further barrier against a reunion with Northern Ireland. The motion was carried. Tliere is at present no means whereby persons in Southern Ireland can promote a bill for presentation to the House of Lords to provide for divorce.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18942, 13 February 1925, Page 9
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