30 May – a new licensing Bill is introduced by the
Minister for Justice,
Kevin O'Higgins. Bars are allowed open between 9am and 10pm and the sale of alcohol is limited to those over the age of 18.
5 June – in an austerity budget, the
Minister for Finance, the only Northern Ireland Protestant to serve on a Republic of Ireland cabinet,
Ernest Blythe brings in the Old Age Pensions Act 1924, which cuts the old age pension by 10%, from 10/= to 9/= (ten shillings then being around £181 in 2014); an action still remembered with bitterness in Ireland .
Urney Chocolates moves to the disused WW1-era
RAFairfield of Tallaght Aerodrome in the then-rural suburb of
Tallaght, Dublin. The site had been handed over to the Irish Air Service in May 1922.[3][4][5][6]
30 May – a new licensing Bill is introduced by the
Minister for Justice,
Kevin O'Higgins. Bars are allowed open between 9am and 10pm and the sale of alcohol is limited to those over the age of 18.
5 June – in an austerity budget, the
Minister for Finance, the only Northern Ireland Protestant to serve on a Republic of Ireland cabinet,
Ernest Blythe brings in the Old Age Pensions Act 1924, which cuts the old age pension by 10%, from 10/= to 9/= (ten shillings then being around £181 in 2014); an action still remembered with bitterness in Ireland .
Urney Chocolates moves to the disused WW1-era
RAFairfield of Tallaght Aerodrome in the then-rural suburb of
Tallaght, Dublin. The site had been handed over to the Irish Air Service in May 1922.[3][4][5][6]