§ Mr. GINNELLasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland why the Inspector-General of the Royal Irish Constabulary did not accede to the appeal made to him by the Rev. Father O'Neill, of Loughrea, to institute an inquiry into the conduct of the police there in allowing recipients of separation allowances and other such benefits to attack a popular concert at which patriotic songs were sung, in holding Mr. O'Sheehan's two arms while 1625W those people struck him with sticks and stones and burst his eyebrow, and in abusing and striking Mrs. O'Sheehan, all of which the police could have prevented?
§ Mr. DUKEThe conduct of the police was fully investigated before the judicial bodies which dealt with this case; and both at Petty Sessions and on appeal before the Recorder of Galway was expressly commended.