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Just weeks later, a large crowd gathered at Dublin Castle on June 11th, 1924, for the opening ceremony for the new courts, marking, as Ireland’s first chief justice Hugh Kennedy said, “the moment when the silence of the Gael in the courts of law is broken”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VRNLLUBPWRGYXOAF7JQAA775NY","additional_properties":{"_id":1712651816347},"content":"Five days later, the first appeal before the new Irish Supreme Court concerned allegations that Jim Larkin had been responsible for serious irregularities, over years, in the accounts of the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GDBTFET5S5BNLBNJARVCY4EQ5I","additional_properties":{"_id":1712651816348},"content":"The claims were advanced by the union’s general president, Thomas Foran, and the executive council after Larkin, having returned to Ireland in 1923 after several years in the US, tried to regain his dominance of the ITGWU.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WYVE5LC6SZD2XCHPPOLKK4FWVY","additional_properties":{"_id":"AAF4PF7OHVAVLABSYBKAXHVGQU"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"3FOQRESCOVBRFGJNCT2QMDHXFQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1712651816349},"content":"The court battle, sparked after Larkin and some relatives attempted to take over the union’s offices in June 1923, opened before the master of the rolls, Sir Charles Andrew O’Connor, in Dublin Castle in February 1924.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DHDTLUZW4RBRNAXNHEUIYKHLEY","additional_properties":{"_id":1712651816350},"content":"The plaintiffs alleged years of “chaotic” accounting of union funds by Larkin, maintained he effectively ran the union as his personal fiefdom, and argued that new rules overwhelmingly approved by the membership were valid and that they were trustees of the union, entitled to possession of its headquarters in Liberty Hall and offices at Parnell Square.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2P4AZRB4GBEOFPJM2CBR7BMEMA","additional_properties":{"_id":"VJATD3RDXFDZHDJGM52PKR3RXY"},"content":"Plaque commemorating James Connolly unveiled in Dublin","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"L4ZQJJ4JXFFJVBQE6ASVKX7NEA","additional_properties":{"_id":1712651816351},"content":"Larkin, in a separate claim, argued that the new rules were invalid. Having dismissed his counsel, he represented himself and made serious allegations, including fraud, against the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs rejected most of his claims, but admitted expending union funds for political purposes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7PKE6YPMMBCR5MRR2XP3KCH7AY","additional_properties":{"_id":1712651816352},"content":"After an at times heated hearing, the judge said he was deciding the case “not from the point of view of the master or the worker, but simply as a lawyer”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VZQ2MRKS4VCOBFDPK6YE2DSFMI","additional_properties":{"_id":1712651816353},"content":"The plaintiffs were the legal trustees and officers of the union, and Larkin’s counter challenge, he ruled, was not justified. There was no dishonesty or secrecy about the past use of union funds for political purposes and its new rules, unanimously adopted by its conference, were intended to ensure compliance with the law in that regard, he held.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V5TQ7DNCWRG7NDELUJQ72AQJAQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1712651816354},"content":"In seeking to take forcible possession of the ITGWU premises, Larkin was effectively deciding by force and violence his claims over his legal rights, he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RQW6UI2UXZEDDOJ67RWMHEMP3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1712651816355},"content":"“If that is the example to the working class it must result in chaos, and instead of being a society of civilised human beings, we will revert to our original position of savages.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"XOSPLQJHJVHPTFHLTTVIPXDUIE","additional_properties":{"_id":1712651816356},"content":"Larkin appealed, but the Supreme Court was told on the morning of the hearing on June 16th, 1924, that the appeal had been withdrawn the previous evening.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XVCTBO4XVJHYHP64LGJMU5J2AQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"VDNV67R67VAQBIM327R2UKXYL4"},"content":"Big Jim Larkin: Hero or Wrecker? review: When Big Jim looked small","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"GCT6OSKOKZH2FFAC3XA7DDFAEQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1712651816357},"content":"Ireland’s first chief justice, Hugh Kennedy, struck out the matter, with costs to the union side, which it was frustrated in recovering, as Larkin was made bankrupt in late 1924.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PYK42LXUP5A4ZD7KOSTGUWEHKI","additional_properties":{"_id":1712651816358},"content":"An undaunted Larkin was back before the Supreme Court in summer 1925 in another appeal, in entirely separate proceedings, against an award of £500 damages for defamation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CU2B4TR2XNBMBMXKY5S7XELCEI","additional_properties":{"_id":"ENDOZT5W7NF7DK5B6XV6KT2I7A"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"P3EAPRBZM5FWXAAT2KI4XAW5NU","additional_properties":{"_id":1712651816359},"content":"Thomas Johnson TD, then leader of the Irish Labour Party, alleged he was defamed in an article published in the Irish Worker, edited by Larkin, on May 24th, 1924, slamming Johnson over a Dáil speech delivered a few days earlier.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YTTSS3GGNRCLZAKCWQAQFN7K6A","additional_properties":{"_id":1712651816360},"content":"Johnson, after referring to correspondence from demobilised soldiers seeking pensions, urged the government to take warning of the “rising tide of agitation and discontent”. It would have to deal with unemployment in a “much bigger manner” and raise a civil and industrial army to deal with it, he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LDHJBV3CQRHYRJLJ67J22N4GQI","additional_properties":{"_id":"O6RER5LWOJEPTEBLIKRBZXSSAY"},"content":"Big Jim and Black Tom - An Irishman’s Diary about an attack on America in 1916","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"NRUYMJ4VS5BLRFLDQHYREBIWMM","additional_properties":{"_id":1712651816361},"content":"The Irish Worker article, written by Larkin’s father James and published under the headline “Johnson incites to chaos”, claimed Johnson’s speech meant workers thrown out of work due to the “murderous and suicidal” policy of the government must be shot down if they agitated for work. “It is time Labour dealt with this English traitor,” the article urged.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3FC5F5JKURGLBNGBTS5J6KKZZM","additional_properties":{"_id":1712651816362},"content":"Johnson claimed the article wrongly meant he had incited the murder of workers, was a “traitor” to the labour movement, and had “gone over to capitalism”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZFJFTPVHKNG3NHGGDGNCWOKS7Q","additional_properties":{"_id":"T4UZZSXVLBDABCRN3GKTR2QPOM"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"7LRUBQTK3JD7BFIGNIN7MLPMCI","additional_properties":{"_id":1712651816363},"content":"He sued Larkin and The Gaelic Press, publisher of the Irish Worker, for defamation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YIGVVXBK2FBINISMZ42NVYVI4I","additional_properties":{"_id":1712651816364},"content":"During the trial in April 1925 before Mr Justice Thomas O’Shaughnessy and a jury in the new Irish High Court, The Irish Times reported that Larkin told the jury he did not write the article, but wished he had.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ICN5EFA3K5HQVD7ECSY2SFMMEM","additional_properties":{"_id":"AS327EKFOZEE3DV4CD3R2UCGVI"},"content":"My granny took on Jim Larkin but a schools rugby game was her finest hour","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"GL3YUXS5TNF6TFGZ72CELRASYQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1712651816365},"content":"“If I wrote it, there should be more bitterness and invective in it,” the clearly unrepentant editor said, declaring he approved of “every line”, that it was “perfectly true, well-founded and fair” and that he would repeat it even if all the juries of Dublin found against the defendants.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GVMNMG5DWFG7ZHYW6FKWBKCPOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1712651816366},"content":"Asked was he above the juries and the law, he said: “I am.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5NBSCZG24FH2LGHXDDYNPNA2O4","additional_properties":{"_id":1712651816367},"content":"When Serjeant Hanna KC, for Johnson, said: “These are the principles of Moscow,” The Irish Times reported that Larkin, “still shouting”, said: “Yes, these are the principles of Moscow. I do not preach to unorganised men one day and tomorrow incite to their murder. They are the principles of Moscow. I am a member of the Moscow Soviet. 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It has previously been explained that an “ambient” recording system remains on at all times, even when the court is not sitting. It exists in case the official audio recording system fails or is inadvertently switched off.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V6CGVQPUSRHDPF5OVW2GBKR7BI","additional_properties":{"_id":1712923201987},"content":"After Mr Justice Edwards granted Gsoc’s application, Mr Burke rose to say that he was “appalled” by the court’s decision. 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He said the “disruptive and disrespectful conduct by some persons attending the Court of Appeal”, which caused the court to rise and abandon delivery of its judgment on in March last year, “represented an uninterrupted continuum of unacceptable behaviour which is properly to be regarded as part of the proceedings before the court on that day.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"XBF6LWL6OBCDLEV64E7EDMQCV4","additional_properties":{},"content":"The court further found that Gsoc has sought the recordings for the legitimate purpose of investigating a serious allegation of criminal misconduct by members of An Garda Siochana and that the release of the recordings is therefore warranted. 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It must also be subject to the general principles attaching to the creation of security interests over unregistered land.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EVLV3O3H4NHU3CGP7BL7SY5EMI","additional_properties":{"_id":1712840663931},"content":"The High Court was correct to hold that the sale by the Bank of Ireland to Ms Maher meant the charge was payable by the owner of the land and remained (at the time of the closing of the sale) recoverable by the city council as a simple contract debt against the previous owner, she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"W52LIW44GNAQVNIZEDWB4YB5GY","additional_properties":{"_id":1712840663932},"content":"Mr Justice Murray, in his judgment, said if the Oireachtas wishes to effectively impose on prior encumbrancers the derelict sites levy, then it is incumbent on it to do so clearly. 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After an order was given, the side of the the lorry was lowered and shots were fired.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KSHFB5IRAJGBHM4AZRANYQWT4M","additional_properties":{"_id":1715109898194},"content":"The man with the rifle fell back into the car, which travelled on and crashed into another car around 30 metres away. 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She said Aoife’s bright future was “snatched away” by a decision made by Scouting Ireland in December 2015 and that she was “disgusted” that the organisation took so long to accept liability.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QJAG4WBXURBVVCIUIGJ4R5LM7Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1712754907302},"content":"“I gave consent for Aoife to travel with her scout group to a hostel in Waterford. On the way back the scout leaders made an unscheduled stop at Hook Head in Wexford, without parental consent. This was during Storm Desmond, which brought severe gales and gusts of 80mph,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JR32OJI7IBA55K3JWYXZ6BL66M","additional_properties":{"_id":"GMUWRTUMWNCKPDEBCVU3QQGH6Y"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"V6BSOF5JOBCLFOD5NVM62LTBY4","additional_properties":{"_id":1712754907303},"content":"“The children were left unsupervised for a significant period leading to my precious daughter being swept into the sea by the turbulent waves. 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