On March 6, 1919, a British Cabinet Minister, answering a question in
the House of Commons in Westminster explained –
“It was decided by the Government that the Royal Irish Constabulary could
not be permitted to join the National Union of Police and Prison Officers, in
as much as the Royal Irish Constabulary is a semi-military force directly under
the control of the Crown, and subject in many respects to the same
conditions of employment as the army and navy forces.”
The quotation comes from Hansard, 113 Series 5 House of Commons Debates, column
626 of the 6th of March 1919.
How comforting to know that the Taoiseach, the Minister of Justice, and the
collective brain cells of THE IRISH TIMES know better!
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