Commenting on the book on Casement, Mackey said:

"Noyes's action in writing the book is one of great moral courage and intellectual honesty, carried out in the face of considerable opposition and pressure from many sources. We will renew our request to the British Government that the remains of Casement be handed back to his relatives for return to his native Ireland." The slander on Casement's moral character was repeated and endorsed in yesterday's Sunday Times in the second of two articles written by Mr H M Hyde, the Belfast Tory MP. It is evident from the timing of these specially commissioned articles that they are intended as a counter-blow to the indictment contained in Mr Noyes's book. Mr Hyde, however, calls on the British Government to appoint a committee of experts to examine and report on the alleged diaries, "assuming they are still in existence, " and expresses concern for the reputations of Sir Basil Thomson, Sir Reginald Hall and the late Lord Birkenhead, the men originally responsible for circulating the slander. In another leading English Sunday newspaper, The Observer, Christopher Hollis, came to the following conclusion: "Casement has stood his trial and paid his penalty, justly or unjustly. It is not he who is now on trial. It is the Home Office and Lord Birkenhead who are on trial."

Munster News 29 April 1925 THE following letter from his Lordship the Bishop, Most Rev Dr Keane, was read at the 12 o'clock masses in the City Churches on Sunday. Dear Brethren . . . I find it necessary to address you a few words regarding certain forms of entertainment held for a long time past in the city, and generally known by the name of revues. As many of these are highly objectionable, their continuance amongst us might easily become a source of scandal. This, I think, is a view which will meet with a very widespread acceptance. I have, therefore, felt bound to try to secure the discontinuance in the city of amusements of this class. Some time since I notified those who might be concerned in the production of the objectionable nature of these performances, with a request to cease to present them to the public. To that request the response in one case was not altogether satisfactory, and it is, therefore, possible that you may be asked to patronise such performances. Should this happen, I ask you not to do so from this day forward, and to refuse to give them any longer the sanction of your presence. To act otherwise would be, in view of their tendency, to incur a serious responsibility. I do not think that it is necessary to say anything further except that I feel confident that the heads of families, the members of the Arch Confraternity, and the members of the other sodalities in the city will, should the need arise, set an example in this matter that all will readily follow. . . I remain faithfully yours in Christ, DAVID, Bishop of Limerick.