HC Deb 13 August 1883 vol 283 cc260-1
MR. BIGGAR

asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether he is aware that the meetings of the Kanturk Branch of the Irish National League, are regularly attended by Members of the Royal Irish Constabulary; if he can state under whose directions, and for what purpose, this annoyance to the members of a legal organization is so persistently carried out; and, whether he will give instructions to have the practice discontinued?

MR. TREVELYAN

Sir, the meetings of the Kanturk, as well as other branches of the National League in the district, are usually attended by the police, but they never force their admission unless obliged to do so under warrant?

MR. HARRINGTON

May I ask if the people resisted the police would they be prosecuted under the Prevention of Crime Act?

MR. HEALY

Of course they would.