NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 7 April 1923

7 APRIL 1923

A £2 million road scheme was proposed to connect Edinburgh and Glasgow, with the Ministry of Transport agreeing to pay for half of the cost.

Thomas Derrig, an anti-Treaty member of the Dail, was shot and badly wounded whilst trying to escape from a CID escort in Dublin.

A car carrying Lord Waterford was shot at in Waterford, but he was unharmed during the attack.

The British Museum denied that they had in their collections a mummy which had supernatural powers following comments made by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.