1923

Flogging Bill

A crowd of women bearing placards dealing with the Flogging Bill assembled outside Leinster House on Monday about the time the Dáil was re-assembling.

Mrs. Despard and Madame Gonne McBride were amongst those present. The assembly of women attracted a good deal of attention and the D.M.P. were requisitioned to keep back the spectators.

As the Deputies, officials and Pressmen entered the Government Buildings, there was some cheering from the women who moved about the place.

When the Dáil had re-assembled, the second stage of the Public Safety (Emergency Powers) Bill, 1923 was taken up.

Mr. Thomas J. O’Connell (Labour, Galway) opposed the measure. He said that the Minister who had introduced this measure had stated that he would convince them of its necessity, but he had not done so.

In every other country in Europe, after war and after a period of rebellion such as Ireland had passed through, the ordinary conditions of crime did not obtain, but on looking up the records for the past four months he found that crime in Ireland was much lower than crime in other countries.

Professor Magennis spoke in support of the Bill and mentioned that there are a number of States in which flogging was part of the legal punishment for robbery, arson and other offences.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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