MR. SHEBHY (Galway, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he has now ascertained that Mr. Gubbins, into whose house an explosive machine was thrown on 20th June, is an inhabitant of the parish of Oola, in County Limerick, and not of the town of Tipperary; whether a man named John Rafferty has been arrested and returned for trial, and admitted to bail; and why Rafferty has been admitted to bail?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURThe hon. Member, in putting this question, apparently intends to refer to my reply to a question put by the hon. Member for South Tyrone on 26th June. My reply then given was quite accurate. An explosive outrage was committed on 25th June, at the dwelling house of Mr. Joseph Duggan, in the main street, Tipperary, and, as I then stated, though I was at the time emphatically contradicted by the hon. Member who puts this question, Mr. Duggan is a shopkeeper. His business is that of a hardware merchant. The other outrage which the hon. Member mow mentions is a wholly different one.
§ MR. SHEEHYWill the right hon. Gentleman answer the last paragraph of the question?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURI do not know why. I may be able to obtain further information.