§ MR. O'SHAUGHNESSYI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he will state whether he intends to take any steps in the public interest to remove a notice offensive to Roman Catholics, which is hung daily from ten o'clock a.m. to seven o'clock p.m. on a notice board on the walls of a house in the public street in the village of Pallaskenry, in the county of Limerick.
§ MR. WYNDHAMI do not think I can usefully supplement my reply to the hon. Member's Question of Monday on this subject.
§ MR. O'SHAUGHNESSYBy whose authority is it done?
§ MR. WYNDHAMThe hon. Member does not seem to understand the extent of the liberty of the subject in this country.
§ MR. JOYCE (Limerick)If notices are offensive to the general public, should not the local authority see that they are withdrawn?
§ MR. WYNDHAMI do not see how the local authority could usefully intervene in a question of taste.
MR. LONDONIs the right hon. Gentleman aware [that for better than forty years this system of abusing members of the Catholic Church has been persistently carried on by the landlord there at the present time, and formerly by his father, Parson Waller, who was notoriously a proselytising minister?
§ [No answer was returned.]