HC Deb 21 July 1890 vol 347 c355
MR. BLANE (Armagh, S.)

I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he is aware that, on Sunday, 6th July, a number of Catholic excursionists from Portadown and Armagh, returning from the yearly trip to Lough Neagh, were stoned by an Orange mob at Clonmacate and Cloncore, six miles from Portadown, and that Stephen M'Guigan, senior, and Stephen M'Guigan, junior, were also attacked and threatened with death; and if the authorities will take steps to prevent such attacks on excursionists as are alleged to have taken place?

MR. A. J. BALFOUR

The Constabulary Authorities report that a police party passed through the places at which the alleged attacks occurred, first in the morning and again in the evening, and that they were engaged all day on duty where the excursionists were, and no complaint was made of any person having been molested. Since the question appeared upon the Paper the local police have visited the two men mentioned. They allege that they were struck with stones on the road, but they have no marks of injury, and, up to the inquiry, they had made no complaint to the police. The excursionists had ample police protection on the occasion.