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IRISH V DEMOCRAT Your County Results Special Edition Sinn Fein 4 Full Results S. MocBride 0 at a glance Inside Stories Dr. Browne 1 on the 7>oete<iAt. Irish Democrat Map '//, TBhtu Yo /jnr THE PEOPLE Af/AA///, ntoy > VOICE THEIR '//[ ^C/Yelbx r ton // ImoivmA / /As ' I**' No*H / j s.m. A PROTEST \ S \ / I Coalition Hit for 18 MAyo IRISH DEMOCRAT REPORTER MCa r« Ni WITH very little choice in front of them the Irish people have voiced their protest against unemployment, emigra- tion and the flabby policy of letting Britain away with partition. They voiced it in the only way they could. Every decent candidate who was sufficiently known to them has got Murphy, a native of the Coombe Ktutfitie /4>.|Y in. Dr. Browne, outspoken liberal area where his rally was held said d At WAY that if he couldn't stop unemploy- / > who was forced out of Fianna Fail by Mr. MacEntee who refused to ment at least he would expose the hypocrites who caused it. The un- stand if Browne stood, was elected f f WIOU.OW employed protest committee had well ahead %f MacEntee himself. the support of a number of busi- Browne's committee rooms were so nessmen who were alarmed at the lull of helpers that no more of the lall in population and its economic volunteers who crowded in could dangers. be accepted. In the small hours ' Although main credit for the enthusiasts (.'.imbed telegraph campaign belongs to the members poles and bridges, and plastered of the committee and the Dublin the constituency with "Stand by Trades 'Council, it is understood that the man behind the election Noel Browne" notices. was Mr. Peadar O'Donnell. RETIRE SINN FEIN /./Air^/CK The election of Dr. Browne should be a sign to MacEntee, if There would have been many he has any decency in him, to re- more Sinn Fein victories but for tire from public life. the cunning timing of the election, Mr. Sean MacBride. the first to by Mr. Costello. start the persecution of Dr. The electoral register was two Ff-l. Browne, was ignominiously de- years out of date and since a large f^. I feated in Dublin South-West. The proportion of Sinn Fein supporters Irish people showed they know the are under 23, its chances were proverb "fool me once, shame on correspondingly reduced. you: fool me twice, shame on me." The Government announced the Mr. MacBride will do no more galli- election (with Mr. Sean MacBride's vanting to Europe favouring t h e assistance) Just when it had Sinn nations with his bad advice. Fein's leading propagandists and The unemployed candidate in organisers safely under lock and CITY. Dublin South Central was elected. key. This event is unprecedented in The fact that Sinn Fein T.D.s A4 Results on Irish history. would abstain from attending the At his eve of poll rally he said Dail may also have reduced the Back Page We refuse to emigrate. We want vote, together with the natural a living in our own land." Mr. disinclination of voters to go all- out for very new and very young candidates. The successful winning of four seats was therefore very creditable UNEMPLOYED MAN WINS DUBLIN SEAT and shows how tired the people aie of the corrupt humbug of poli- EXT day at the count, Costello (Dev was asked if he d let them h i s position in a forthright polling day a long low tics as conducted for the past few had been elected And so had out of Jail to attend the Dail. He manner. luxurious car drew up at a N years. Dr Browne. Candidates who did said he wasn't risking it; they'd Part of the plot was to unship school in Sandymount. Who was Another progressive candidate to not yet know their fate clustered better stay inside!). So Dr. Noel Labour which had been utterly dis- secure hi* seat was Mr. Jack in it? It was the late Taoi6«ach, round to see what their chances Browne will have only one ally, credited. The last drop of advan- MacQuillan who this time stood as Mr. Costellu. were Sean MacEntee gnashed his but an able one for all that. tage had been squeezed out of its * * * an independent, having broken teeth and unashamedly stumped opportunist leaders who could now As he got out he bowed and away from the ludicrous rump of about champing with rage that his HAT is the story behind the be thrown on the scrap heap. scraped and gave a mellifluous w Browne refused to support this Clann na Poblachta. good morning" to two unem- hated rival had defeated him. Sean cabal that drove Browne out ot Fianna Fail'' It is the plot to plan It was felt that if at anv The Irish people showed they ployed men leaning up against a MacBride knew he was finished He unseat Dev and throw out Muloihy time there arose an opportunity to recognise honesty in politics. They post. It was polling day, the only was weeping in a corridor, all his fine political ambitions dashed by and make f.emass Taoi'cach of a implement it (for it is not even day he'd have been seen dead (Continued on Bark I'age) the commonsense ol the electorate "national Government Mnriti now quite dead) he would expose with them. Dr. Browne saw .Tar k Mill pin Dure is said to have been behind all the sorry intrigues as he did In he went, as thoy acknow- come in Impulsively he went over the plot, and certain elements of when he was Minister of Health of being plunged into the cold So the "old gang" decided lie must ledged him with a sly smile. to him and warmly shook his hand. the same east advised electors to water of isolation might bring not go up. "You deserve to be elected." said spoil t heir ballot pape: • I) u nt iin I aboiir to its senses. There would And what did they say? Browne, and you will lie elected national (iovei niiient neioss it De Valera scotched the national emerge a really dangerous opposi- They said "Wouldn't that fellow And when the two of us :irr in the II r sa d that Muleahv and De i.iovernment idea because he be- tion which in n few years time 1 lieved Fianna Fail would win any- would threaten the combined Kivc you the . ." no, we musn't Dai 1 togethe: . we'll show them " V; let a got wind of the tart that there v as room in the : enate lor way. and because it Fianna Fail force', of the two "Free State" print it; it is below the standard of Murphy was successful. The Sinn i hi m. n:i<I t hat Mulcahv (!• fended and Fine G;k 1 comlMied. tin" shock parties. the "Irish Democrat." 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