NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 17 February 1923

17 FEBRUARY 1923

Arthur Griffith-Boscawen, the Minister of Health, said that the Government’s housing policy including rent restrictions and also a state subsidy to the builders of working men’s homes.

The Labour amendment to the Loyal Address was defeated by 277 votes to 180.

Éamon de Valera stated that he wanted an agreement which would lead to peace in Ireland, but he said that it was essential that “the cause is the threat by England which resulted in the Irish delegates signing an agreement which could in no way by regarded as a settlement in accordance with Irish aspirations”.

It was announced that the inner chamber of the Luxor Tomb had been opened for the first time.