Captain CRAIGasked the Chief Secretary whether he was aware that an outrage was perpetrated at a place called Kiltulla, about three miles from Galway, at ten minutes past nine on Friday night, 20th May last, when a man named Martin Conroy, who was sitting with two of his neighbours in his own house, was fired at in the open door and hit in three places about the head; whether a police patrol had only just left the place, and whether there is evidence to show that the patrol was watched by the perpetrators; whether there is any evidence to prove that it was intended to kill Conroy; whether he has been under police protection for some time past; whether he is aware of the unrest in the district over the sale of a farm for which competitive offers for purchase were made by persons living in and around the villages of Kiltulla and Ballintemple; whether the landlord accepted the higher price offered by the tenants at Ballintemple, of whom Conroy is one of the principal, and after the sale had been completed reprisals were threatened on the part of the Kiltulla people; whether any arrests have been made; and what steps have been taken to protect this man against similar outrages in the future?
§ Mr. BIRRELLA man is at present awaiting his trial at the coming Assizes in connection with this matter. The case being sub judice, I cannot enter into particulars.