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OF A REPUBLICAN IRELAND. SIR H, O’NEILL’S OPINION. (Australian Press Association.) PERTH, October 18. Among the passengers on the liner Orontes, is Sir Hugh O’Neill, He was the first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland. Interviewed, he said: “The idea of a Republican Ireland is absurd. It is not worth talking about. If the Free State left the Empire, it would mean chaos, disaster and ruin; but Ulster would not raise a finger to keep the Free State inside if she wanted to get outside of the Empire. At the same time, Ulster is very anxious to live in peace with the Free State.
USE OF IRISH ANNUITIES. ’ LONDON, October 18. The “Daily Mail’s” Dublin correspondent says: “It is thought that the Free State Government will employ the annuities, which are not being held in a suspense account, for the purpose of giving bounties to the farmers for their cattle and other produce. DRAMATIC ANNOUNCEMENT. RECOGNITION OF ILLEGAL BODIES. (United Press Association—Bv Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received this day at' T0.1'5 a.m.) LONDON, October 18. The “Daily Mail’s” Dublin correspondent says that the Free State Government has dramatically announced that it proposed to grant pensions to members of the Irish Republican Army, and to other organisations declared illegal during the British regime. The Bill extends benefit pensions to men actually seized in the Four Courts and other Dublin buildings in 1922, who participated in ensuing battles. The Bill recognises the T.R.A., the Irish Volunteers. Fiannn Eireann. Hibernian Rifles, and Cnmmnn na Mban. or any member, which will be deemed to have seen “military service,” if he or she is arrested as a result of activities, or evaded capture or pursuit by the armed forces of the British Government. the Free State Government, or Northern Ireland.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 October 1932, Page 5
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