§ MR. DALTON (Donegal, W.)I beg to ask the Attorney General for Ireland, in view of his statement that the stone throwing by the police, at the eviction of Mrs. M'Ginley at Meenacladdy on 15th November, was done in panic, whether he is aware that the police threw stones continuously from the time they commenced the attack on the house until the house was entered, and that the bailiffs made no serious attempt to get into the house at all; and whether the attack by the police, with the assistance of a ladder on the roof of the house and by the throwing of stones, was almost simultaneous with the attempt at entry by the bailiffs?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. MADDEN, Dublin University)The hon. Gentleman is under a misapprehension. I did not state that the stone throwing was the result of a panic, but that it was resorted to in self-defence. The premises were entered by the police, and while they were engaged in the performance of their duty stones were thrown at them. It is not the fact that the police threw stones continuously.
§ MR. DALTONIs it not the fact that the Commissioner of Police swore at the trial that he had not a good view, and only saw one stone thrown?
§ MR. MADDENI believe the Commissioner did say that he saw stones thrown.