IRISH HUMOR.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10957, 27 April 1907, Page 6 (Supplement)

IRISH HUMOR.

WHAT MR O'BRIEN THOUGHT OF

MR TIM HEALY,

Mr Tim Healey saw himself as Mr William O'Brien atone time saw him at the resumed hearing of the action at Limerick m which Mr O'Brien seeks io recover £5000 from the "Freeman's Journal" for alleged libel. Mr Healy is Mr O'Brien's counsel ni the case, and, to the great amusement of the court, he had listened to the many remarkable epithets applied to him at various times by his present client. They were contained m Mr O'Brien's writings, and were brought. out m crossexaminations by Mr Ronan. Among the descriptions Mr O'Brien apolied to Mr Tim Healy Were the following :— * 'A secret stabber, displaying the ferocity worthy of the lower beasts of prey." duplicity and falsehood." "Incorrigible disturber and crank.'' "Domon incarnate of dissension." Mr O'Brien further admitted that he had stigmatised Mr Healey as having had a "crooked, treacherous, and rowdy career," and of having "told lies by the yard and by the mile. "It was part of the wretched controversial methods of the days of the split,'' Mr O'Brien explained. Mr Healy listened to the cross-exam-ination with obvious enjoyment. "Sure," he exclaimed, "I was having a whack at him meself." The case was adjourned.