TRALEE DISORDER

Wairarapa Daily Times, 13 October 1933, Page 5

TRALEE DISORDER

FREE STATE CONDITIONS RIGHTS OF CITIZENSHIP. Press Association Electric Teleeraph—Copyright LONDON, Thursday. In the Dail, Mr McDermott, leader of the Farmers’ Party, asked whether the Government was instigating prosecutions in connection with the recent Tralee disorder. The Minister of Justice, ]\lr Patrick Rutledge, replied that he was not in a position to make a statement. The At-torney-General was investigating the matter. Mr McDermott declared that lie was dissatisfied with the reply. Mr McDermott, on. a motion for adjournment, vividly drew attention to the conditions in the Free State, declaring that the problem of intimidation had increased in seriousness since the formation of the ifnited Irish Party. The first serious outbreak at Limerick, when the police did their duty, resulted in protests in which deputies supporting Mr de Valera, participated. The Irish Republican Army’s organ congratulated the mob on the occurrences at Tralee, involving injuries to General O’Duffy, Mr Lynch, an ex-Minister, and others. Mr McDermott recalled the storming of his car at Limerick on sth October, when several persons should have been arrested. All parties should co-operate to deal wiu* organised attempts to destroy the rights of citizenship. Mr Ruftledge’s admission that no arrests had been made at Tralee disgraced the Government. Mr Ruttledge replied that the At-torney-General must decide whether charges could be made, before the military tribunal or the ordinary courts. The Government was behind the Civic Guards and the preservation of free speech. The matter was then dropped.