NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 27 January 1923

27 JANUARY 1923

Winston Churchill confirmed that he was not intending to rejoin the Unionist Party, saying about the rumours that “this statement is quite untrue and unfounded. I am still continuing the rest which I was ordered by my doctors, and have not given any thought whatever to the political situation. I should also like to contradict the rumours that I am seeking to stand for various seats. These rumours are all equally without foundation”.

The Reparation Commission refused to grant a moratorium to Germany siding with France and Belgium.

Telegraph wires connecting Dublin and parts of the South of Ireland were cut, including disruption to Cork, Limerick and Tralee. A passenger train from Dublin to the West of Ireland was derailed and wrecked.