A SADIST operating in the Ranelagh area of Dublin has injured or mutilated at least five cats in the past 12 months. The latest victim is a young black and white male cat which was found strung up from the branch of a tree in Morning Lane, by a length of wire . . . and to make the cat's suffering worse, a tin can was tied to the animal's tail by another piece of wire. In the past 12 months, four other cats have been found similarly tied with wire. The Dublin Society for is the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is offering £5 reward for information leading to the conviction of the perpetrator.

Said Mrs E Ardagh, secretary of the society today; "There's no doubt about it, we're up against a nasty sadist and the sooner he's caught the better. This is not just the playful acts of children. The way the wire was manipulated and tied proves that it was done by a man with a pliers."

Cork Standard and Evening Herald October 8, 1840

FROM an early hour on Wednesday, Limerick was one scene of bustle, with the number of the trades people and the lower classes, who thronged our streets to witness the triumphal entry of Mr O'Connell. About eleven o'clock, the various trades began to assemble, bearing their flags and banners, wearing green sashes &c.

and marching in military array. At twelve o'clock (the hour named by Mr O'Connell to meet them), all were collected at the Black-boy turnpike, where they patiently remained until between two and three o'clock. As it drew near the latter hour, Mr O'Connell's carriage came in sight and having quickly come up, the order of the procession was regulated, and the mass of people who had congregated moved on.

The route, which the procession took, was along Mulgrave-street, into Boherbuoy, thence through Colooney-street, down to George -street, and so on to Thomond Bridge; when the procession halted to indulge poor Tom Steel in his usual Ullagone, over the treaty stone and the departed glory of the city of the violated treaty. There, an address was presented from the congregated trades. In the whole line of the procession we could not discover one of the many influential Roman Catholics and Liberals, who, in former days, used to surround the chariot wheels of the demagogue, all stood aloof from him on the present occasion; and as he passed the residences of many of his old and most valued supporters, he saw the cold and careless looks with which his salutations were returned.

Fermanagh Times October 10, 1901

THE King, at the prosecution of Sergeant Small, charged James Murphy, Abbey Street, with seriously assaulting his step-daughter, Anne Creggan, by kicking her in the body on the 3rd October. Constable Bannon charged same defendant with being drunk on 1st October. Second Offence.

The Enniskillen Urban council charged same defendant with having been guilty of indecent behaviour in Anne Street police barracks on 1st October. For the first offence, defendant was sentenced to one month's imprisonment in Sligo Jail with hard labour. For the second, he was fined 5s or seven days, and for the third he was fined in a further sum of 5s and costs or seven days; all sentences to run concurrently.