IRISH HOTEL RAIDED
FIVE ARMED MEN
ROUTED WITH SHILLELAGH,
LONDON, September 19.
Five armed men raided Thomas Murphy’s Hotel at Dundalk with the idea of demolishing its stock of English ale. They over-ruled the customers’ protests until Mrs Murphy Arrived whirling a shillelagh, with which she routed the intruders, remarking, happily: “I couldn’t give ’em anything more Irish than that.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22064, 21 September 1933, Page 9
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