Britain's Parliament was warned yesterday by Mr William Craig, Northern Ireland Minister of Home Affairs, not to interfere with Stormont. Otherwise "Ulster will fight and Ulster will be right, " he said. The warning came in a surprise speech at Ballycarry in the Minister's Larne Constituency. The British Prime Minister, Mr Wilson, is to be queried in the House of Commons after the Easter vacation on the North's use of its powers under the 1920 Government of Ireland Act. Referring to "recent suggestions that if the Stormont Government doesn't mind its Ps and Qs, it will be in trouble and compelled to do certain things". Mr Craig commented that "there would be no democratic or constitutional justification for such a situation and the Unionist Party will not allow it to happen. It will not be intimidated by threats of this sort." Dealing with a suggestion that British Treasury financial subsidies for Northern Ireland might be cut in order to apply political pressure to the Stormont Government, Mr Craig declared that unless the British Government was prepared to act illegally and unjustly, this was "so much rubbish".

There was now much reference to Section 75 of the Government of Ireland Act.

But it would be "quite improper" if this Section was used to take away from the sovereignty of the Northern Ireland Parliament without Stormont's consent. "It is not a section subtracting from or entitling any interference with the Parliament or Government of Northern Ireland, " he continued. "Let me sound a note of warning . . .that Ulster will fight and Ulster will be right and that this sort of attack and interference would mobilise Ulster loyalists in the same way as attacks by bomb and bullet. Let our opponents accept that Northern Ireland's problems will be settled in Northern Ireland ballot boxes."

Cork Examiner 25 March, 1907 Further Riots in Ballingeary.

. . . Macroom Saturday. Prosecutions have been issued against a number of young women residing in the village of Ballingeary for having, it is alleged, furiously attacked several constables stationed at the local police barrack some weeks ago.

The circumstances that led up to the riot in question are not a little interesting, and would tend to show that the fighting forces of the Ballingeary district have to combat internal troubles, while measuring swords with the common enemy. On the present occasion a large crowd of comely maids engaging in a hostile demonstration against a few of their own sex who were accused of being on friendly terms with the Constabulary, who, as the indignant Ballingeary peasant puts it, "have been hunting honest and hard-working people through the hills night after night for the past six months and endeavouring to get them into the clutches of the law". The police came to the assistance of the seceders from the popular side, and were as a result, attacked with a warmth and determination worthy of the stronger sex, eggs and other missiles being hurled in profusion at them. Nobody seems to have been seriously injured on the occasion, but the police apparently experienced all the discomfiture and unpleasantness consequent on an attack with such obnoxious missiles. A number of men were present, but refrained from taking part in the proceedings for obvious reasons.