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are investigated by the police themselves or can be made the subject of legal action. Government Ministers and spokesmen have regarded all allegations of brutality as propaganda by subversives...
...He disclosed that in the past two years, the Garda authorities had investigated 58 complaints of assault by police on persons in custody...
...But, oh, that detachment, that impolite Aloofness when I was its prot6g...
...Remembering, I give myself a fright And the plane a pat, which still is to say There was in danger desperate delight...
...It was primitive, I its proselyte...
...DIESMOlqD FISHER (Desmond Fisher, author and former editor ot the London Catholic Herald and now Director of Broadcasting Developments /or Radio Telefis Eireann, with this issue becomes Commonweal's regular correspondent in Ireland...
...Patrick Cooney, whose government department administers the police force, had himself warned police recruits not to use "extralegal" methods to serve convictions...
...Cooney denied the existence of a Garda squad specializing in interrogation and warned that any police officer using the methods alleged would be dealt with...
...In the Dail (Lower House) on February 17, Mr...
...There was in danger desperate delight...
...There was in danger desperate delight Of high, blue pasture through which to excite By joystick whip a racing runaway...
...Government Ministers and spokesmen have regarded all allegations of brutality as propaganda by subversives and their fellowtravelers or dupes to discredit the police force and embarrass the government politically...
...then can the other party be assured of fair play...
...It was primitive, I its proselyte...
...We are survivors to a duller day...
...Commonweal: 2:11...
...The Minister's reply, however, will probably take the issue off the boil for the moment...
...0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 RICHARD SNYDER TRE AGING POET, ON A READING TRIP TO DAYTON, VISITS TIlE AIR FORCE MUSEUM AND DISCOVEI~ TIlERE A PLANE HE ONCE FLEW There was in danger desperate delight When I in that ship was a stowaway...
...If the agency entrusted with the collection of that evidence is itself the defendant, how...
...Or is that now romantic second-sight...
...As a result, 22 cases were referred to the Director of Public Prosecutions who instituted charges in 8 cases, all of which were dismissed in the courts...
...Machined in deadly earnest, not for play, It was primitive, I its proselyte...
...It was primitive, I its proselyte...
...Unabashed by the Minister's statement, the Irish Times said editorially next day that the courts could only adjudicate on the basis of evidence put before them...
...He refused, at this time at least, to set up an independent investigation tribunal into allegations of brutality against the police but did not rule such a tribunal out if the courts should prove inadequate...
...However, only a matter of days before the Irish Times articles appeared, the Minister for Justice, Mr...
...But enough public misgivings have been aroused to ensure that the practice, if it existed, will cease and that the Irish police force will not allow what, in general, has been their good record to be spotted because of the particular difficulties at this time...
...Grounded now, hangered here, she was my rite...
Vol. 104 • April 1977 • No. 8
