§ Mr. GINNELLasked the Chief Secretary if he will state on whose instructions and under what law or Regulation the police, some in uniform and some in plain clothes, led a futile attempt at hissing the Member for North Westmeath on his arrival at Limerick railway station on Saturday evening, 30th September; whether their attempt to create a disturbance has been or will be dealt with as a breach of the Defence of the Realm Act; and, should the policemen in question deny their conduct, whether respectable 1151W citizens of Limerick who witnessed their conduct will be afforded an opportunity of proving it?
§ Mr. GINNELLnext asked the Chief Secretary how many policemen in uniform and in plain clothes were engaged on Friday, 6th October, in protecting the hon. Member for Waterford City, in excluding citizens of Waterford from the meeting addressed by him, and in ejecting with violence from the meeting citizens of Waterford entitled to be there if the meeting was public; what were the instructions on which the police acted on that occasion; and why no police prosecutions followed the violence?