“May I Be Canonised”
GOVERNOR HEALY ENJOYS FLATTERY TRIBUTE TO THE KING
3u Cable—Press Association —Coi»>.i . | Reed. 12.45 p.m. LONDON. Sunday. •‘The English, in my few years of office, have never interfered »n any Irish matter.” said Mr. T. Healy at a banquet given by the Executive Council at Dublin on the eve of his retirement from the position of Governor-General of the Irish Free State. President Cosgrave presided. The ! Protestant and Roman Catholic Archbishops of Dublin were present. Mr. Healy, acknowledging a cascade i of compliments, continued: “May I I now be canonised. I have enjoyed this flattery, but I am not such a fool as to believe it all. Old men are useful as undertakers. The country j needs young men. You have heard j the talk about our foreign king, but he 'is a gentleman. We know his pedigree. I wish we knew as much about those who refer to his interference in Irish affairs.” —A. and N.Z.-Sun.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 247, 9 January 1928, Page 11
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