RELIGION AND LAW
IRISH JUDGE'S SYSTEM
STERNER SENTENCES FOR
CATHOLICS .
(Received February 4, 2' p.m.)
LONDON. February 3.
The "Manchester Guardian's" Dublin correspondent says that Mr. Justice Walsh, when' trying cases of illicit whisky distilling in Donegal,, where the s practice is rife, ascertains the* accused's religion. If it is Catholic, he imposes a sterner sentence on the grounds that the accused violated both civil law and the Church's commandment, as the Catholic bishops recently condemned illicit distilling.
Mr. Justice Walsh, who is himself a Catholic, holds, that the'notion that the Law Courts are concerned only with a man's civic and not religious duty is the unfortunate result of the British regime's secularism and must be corrected now that the Free State is essentially Catholic.
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Evening Post, Issue 29, 4 February 1935, Page 10
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125RELIGION AND LAW Evening Post, Issue 29, 4 February 1935, Page 10
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