NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 18 February 1923

18 FEBRUARY 1923

A spokesperson for the Railway Companies’ Association, the co-ordinating body for the four large rail companies, said that they were looking to change ticketing prices so that return fares would be twice the single fare rate. They added though that the rail companies were trying to reduce railway excursion charges to “nearer pre-war rates than ever before”.

William Thomas Cosgrave, the President of the Irish Executive Council, said that it was the final day of the amnesty that was being offered to members of the Irregulars to surrender. He said that “the Free State Government is prepared to put down this revolt regardless of cost. Let no man be deceived, there is no going back”.

It was announced at a conference of the National Training School that a poison gas that could penetrate any mask had been discovered.