§ Mr. MacCAWasked the Chief Secretary whether three cases of firing into dwellings have occurred recently in county Galway, and that a heifer belonging to Mr. Conroy has been maliciously destroyed on the 1169 Tyrone estate, near Headford; and whether, as the result of police investigations into these cases, any arrests have taken place?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThere have recently been two cases of firing into dwellings in county Galway, and a third case where shots were fired outside a house. A heifer was also killed, as stated in the question. So far the police have not succeeded in tracing the persons who committed these offences.