MR. O'KEEFFEI beg to ask the Attorney General for Ireland if it be a fact that Mr. John M'Enery, editor of the Limerick Leader, was arrested in the City of Limerick yesterday, on a charge of simply publishing a report of speeches delivered at a meeting of the local branch of the National League, on 3rd February last, of that city, without editorial comment; and if, in view of recent decisions of the County Court Judge of Waterford on such publications, such a prosecution is legal, and ought to be persisted in?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. MADDEN, University of Dublin)This question relates to a prosecution which is now pending, and it would, therefore, be obviously improper for me to say more on the subject than that, assuming the facts to be correctly stated in the question, this case will afford an additional opportunity of ascertaining whether the view of the law attributed to Judge Waters is in accordance with the law as authoritatively laid down by the Exchequer Division in Ireland.