IRISH HUMOUR.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8805, 6 May 1907, Page 4

IRISH HUMOUR.

Mr Tim Healey saw himself as Mr William O’Brien at one time saw him at the resumed hearing of the action at Limerick in which Mr O’Brien seeks to recover £SOOO from the Freeman Journal for alleged libel. Mr Healey is Mr O’Brien’s counsel in the case, and, to the amusement of the court, he had listened to the many remarkable epithets applied to him at various times by his present client. They were contained in Mr O’Brien’s writings, and were brought out in cross-examinations by M» Ronan. Among the descriptions Mr O’Brien applied to Mr Tim Healey were the following “ A secret stabber, displaying the ferocity worthy of the lower beasts j of prey.” I ||“ Hideous duplicity and falsehood.” “ Incorrigible disturber and crank.” “Demon incarnate of dissension.” Mr O’Brien further admitted that he had stigmatised Mr Healey as having had a. “ crooked, treacherous, and rowdy career,” and of having “ told lies by the yard and by the mile.” •“ It was part of the wretched controversial methods of the days of the split,” Mr O’Brien explained. Mr Healey listened to the crossexamination with obvious enjoyment. “ Sure.” he exclaimed, “ I was having a whack at him myself.” The case was adjourned.