the disgraceful spectacle of the Irish with Stagg's coffin.
rumours about the funeral, with the especially Hands It seems that it was not enough to kill Frank Stagg. The Government of the Irish Free State had to chip in its twopennorth. So we have been treated to security forces playing a game of catch First we have rumours and counterIrish troops guard Stagg's grave-from his relatives British press even going so far as to grub up supposed arterences on th subject in the Stagg family itself. Next the Free State Government takes it upon itself to divert the aeroplane carrying Stagg's coffin from Dublin airport to Shannon - on the other side of Ireland. Finally we have a hurried and secreave merment or eus same coffin. Even dead Republicans are apparently a grave threat to the Fine Gael/ Labour coalition in Dublin Were it not so disgusting the whole affair would be faintly ludicrous. But even its bizarre aspect disappears when we realise that the celebrations included the arrest of six members of Luton Sinn Fein by the Free State police.
The Sinn Fein members had simply