HC Deb 07 June 1883 vol 279 cc1907-8
MR. O'SULLIVAN

asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Why it is that extra Police are still retained in Kilmallock district at the expense of the ratepayers, notwithstanding the fact that no serious crime or outrage has been committed in that district for the past two years?

MR. TREVELYAN

Sir, I have already, in reply to former Questions, explained the circumstances under which these extra police are required at Kilmallock; and I regret to say that they do not appear to have undergone in the interval any change which would justify the withdrawal of the police. A respectable man living three miles from Kilmallock is kept in constant danger of his life. He is mercilessly "Boycotted" for claiming the protection of the Government from illegal orders passed against him by the Kilmallock Land League. The "Boycotting" was instituted, and is in great part kept up, by people of Kilmallock. This persecution and personal danger continue to this day; and so long as this is the case the police cannot be removed.

MR. O'SULLIVAN

Is not this case in a different barony altogether? It is not in the Kilmallock Barony.

MR. TREVELYAN

The proceedings, which took the form of a mock judicial proceeding, were proceedings taken by the Kilmallock Land League itself.

MR. O'SULLIVAN

Is not that two years since? Has any action of the kind taken place during the last six months?

MR. TREVELYAN

The "Boycotting" is still kept up, I am sorry to say.