GAMES AND SEDITION.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8824, 28 May 1907, Page 4

GAMES AND SEDITION.

From far Western Galway, which skirts tho Atlantic shores of Ireland, right across to Drogheda, tho eastern scene of tho battle of the B wno. says tho special correspondent (if the. Daily Express, 1 find Hie Sinn Homers busy perpetuating tho differences bo'wee.n Ireland and E igland, Down by remote Lough Mask I find whole villages full of pvaple who make a practice of never speaking English. In Drogheda in the eastern province of Leinster, I saw the Sinn Feincrs this afternoon playing “Gaelic football, 1 ’ which, they explained, was a way of enjoying the advantages of the great game Without being much, like English people. “We make it as different from thcJEuglish game as wo can,” said Mr ,1. Cunningham, editor of the Eroghoda “Argus,” whom I mot at tho football ground. “It is really tho revival of cue of tho old Irish games. It is part of the same movement that is promoting the use of tho old Irish language, and the shutting out whore possible of English goods.” Kow, hero is a good example of the work of the Sinn Fein movement. JjTho Tradagh football team won the county clunpionsbip for Gaelic football. The runners-up —Dnutalk Sinn' Fein team—raised a protest on" tho ground that one man in the Tradagh team was a Militiaman. They said the Tradagh team could not ho a real Gaelic football corps if one of its members had sworn to fight in the English army. So as punishment for tho crime of allowing a member to become a Militiaman in the army of tho King of England Drogheda was deprived of the championship.