IRISH GIRL SACKED
DENIES ALL KNOWLEDGE OF BOMB PLOTS (Special—By Air Mall) LONDON, May 13. An Irish girl who denies all knowledge of the I.R.A. bomb plots, has been dismissed from her employment at the British Home Office. Sheila Gallagher, aged 20, declared this week that she had been “unofficially” engaged to Charles James Casey, one of the men who appeared at Bow Street with her sister Molly Gallagher, and who was sentenced to 14 years’ penal servitude. “I had sold flags at the Eastern Week celebrations (commemorating the Irish Rising) but I knew nothing about these bomb outrages” she said. “I have been dismissed because my sister was found guilty of an offence of which I knew nothing. I was earning two guineas in my job and I had been there for about four years. I have lost all my pension rights. I am not a member of the I.R.A. and I never have been.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21361, 2 June 1939, Page 7
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156IRISH GIRL SACKED Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21361, 2 June 1939, Page 7
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