§ 14. Mr. GALBRAITHasked the Chief Secretary whether he is aware that a boy named Michael Considine, aged 12, was shot by military or police on 23rd December, at Cooraclare, County Clare, and severely wounded: that his father wrote to District-Inspector May claiming compensation and received the reply that the 292 shooting was accidental; and that this case was brought before the County Court Judge Bodkin at his recent examination into compensation claims, but compensation could not be awarded owing to the injunction of the commander of the forces; and whether he proposes to allow this claim for an admitted injury to be proceeded with?
§ Sir H. GREENWOODThe hearing for malicious injury in this case was adjourned by Judge Bodkin to a later date to allow the police to attend, and later adjourned by him to the following Sessions. There is no intention to prohibit the hearing. I am glad to say that the boy Considine was only slightly wounded.