IRELAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 February 1923, Page 5

IRELAND.

MORE OUTRAGES. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Jan. 31. A large band of armed rebels blew up the residence of Mr. Stephen Gwynn, ex-M.P. for Dublin, by means of a land mine, after fo-rcing the occupants to leave, the house. The Balbruggan coastguard station was destroyed by the explosion of three land-mines. A woman with a revolver held up the policeman at Trinity College and kept him covered while several women painted inscriptions on the walls of the college relating to the hunger strike at MounXjoy Prison. The recently established Free State army post at Ballymore, County Leitrim, was attacked by ft large body of Republicans and the garrison of 30 captured. A railway train was seized. the post ’ office and bank raided. Simultaneously, roads leading to the town were blocked and the prisoners removed by train to Drumshanlo.