§ MR. GILHOOLY (Cork County, W.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that a constable named Delaney accosted a man named Denis Cullinane, near Barty, who was returning from his work, and insisted on examining a bag which Cullinane carried, and which contained utensils necessary for drink which he used at dinner, and that the constable threatened to summon Cullinane if he refused to allow him to search the bag; and will he say on whose authority the constable acted in that manner.
745 (Answered by Mr. Walter Long.) The constable had reasonable grounds for suspecting that Cullinane's bag contained fish which had been illegally taken. He had power, under the 6th Section of 54 and 55 Vic, cap. 20, to search the bag, but the necessity for doing so did not arise, as Cullinane voluntarily showed its contents.