§ MR. FLYNNI beg to ask the Attorney General for Ireland if he can explain why Mr. Long, editor of the Nationalist paper, has been lately removed from Clonmel Gaol to Kilkenny Gaol; and whether, at the former place, the prisoner was entitled to visits from members of his family?
§ MR. MADDENI am informed that the usual practice is that, in any case where the connections or associations of a prisoner with a district are such as, in the opinion of the General Prisons Board, to be calculated to interfere with the due maintenance of discipline in the local prison, his transfer to another prison is made. On this general principle the transfer referred to was made. Both at Clonmel and at Kilkenny Prisons, Mr. Long, being a bail prisoner, was and is entitled to receive visits under the rules governing that class of prisoners.
§ MR. FLYNNHas not Mr. Long been removed from Clonmel to Kilkenny Gaol in order to deprive him of the visits to which he is entitled? Has not that been the object of his removal?
§ MR. MADDENNo, Sir.