13 April – The Department of Local Government & Public Health reported that cases of
typhoid and
diphtheria had reduced; however, infant deaths had increased.
12 September – Éamon de Valera was elected President of the Assembly of the
League of Nations in
Geneva.
13 November – President Douglas Hyde attended an Ireland versus Poland friendly football match at
Dalymount Park in Dublin, accompanied by Taoiseach Éamon de Valera, the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs,
Oscar Traynor, and Attorney General
Paddy Lynch.
Association football being an English game, this provoked a public outcry from nationalist sporting quarters which resulted in Hyde being removed as patron of the
Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), and shunned. He was not reinstated by the GAA before his death, in July 1949. The Taoiseach and Minister who attended this Irish 3–2 victory were not patrons of the GAA and thus were not sanctioned by that organisation.[4][5][6]
13 April – The Department of Local Government & Public Health reported that cases of
typhoid and
diphtheria had reduced; however, infant deaths had increased.
12 September – Éamon de Valera was elected President of the Assembly of the
League of Nations in
Geneva.
13 November – President Douglas Hyde attended an Ireland versus Poland friendly football match at
Dalymount Park in Dublin, accompanied by Taoiseach Éamon de Valera, the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs,
Oscar Traynor, and Attorney General
Paddy Lynch.
Association football being an English game, this provoked a public outcry from nationalist sporting quarters which resulted in Hyde being removed as patron of the
Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), and shunned. He was not reinstated by the GAA before his death, in July 1949. The Taoiseach and Minister who attended this Irish 3–2 victory were not patrons of the GAA and thus were not sanctioned by that organisation.[4][5][6]