Every true Irishman must feel glad that military insolence has at last received an effective check. . . As it is, there is, we believe, little cause to fear that the gallant 90th will attack any more old women during their stay in Limerick. They will, we are sure, be very careful not to stir beyond the walls of their barrack except under heavy escort. It is time the inhabitants of Irish towns should begin to resent the perpetual provocation of the military. It is only the other day that the people of Nenagh had to inflict salutary chastisement on the soldiers of another English Regiment. . . The presence of foreign regiments in our midst is bad enough, in all conscience; but if we have to tolerate it, there is no reason why these soldiers should not be obliged to observe the ordinary rules of decency and good conduct. If the Constabulary will not keep them in order, it is evident, from the recent occurrences in Nenagh and Limerick, that the people will.

Dublin Evening Post 16 April 1807 Lifford Assizes - Hugh Coyle was indicted for the murder of _____ Elwyn, a boy of three years of age. This case afforded an awful example of the danger of yielding to the solicitations of illicit lust. It appeared that the prisoner was a neighbour of the parents of the deceased, and had conceived an unlawful passion for the mother, who was a woman of uncommon personal attractions. Taking advantage of the absence of her husband at a neighbouring fair, he repaired for the house, and the wife having gone out to a neighbour to stay with her until her husband's return, the prisoner got into the house unnoticed and concealed himself. He was, however, discovered by the little boy, who told his mother on her return, that the prisoner was in the room. The prisoner, hearing this, came out in a passion, exclaimed with an oath, that he would kill him, immediately kicked him down, and as he was attempting to rise, gave him a blow between the shoulders, which put an end to his life. He then solicited the mother to consent to his unlawful desires, and on her positive refusal, he proceeded to wreak his vengeance by further violence on the body of the innocent child, and afterwards abused the mother in a shocking manner, leaving her for dead.

When the father returned home several hours after, he found his wife lying wounded and insensible on the ground, and his child murdered at her side. After a long investigation, and a most humane charge from the learned Judge, the Jury brought in a conviction. The prisoner was executed on Friday, at Letterkenny, near the place of his crime.