18 FEBRUARY 1955, Page 7

IRELAND is even stranger than I thought. A deputation from

the Licensed Grocers' and Vintners' Association saw the Minister for Justice in Dublin last week and put forward certain de- mands. These included the abolition of (I quote from the Irish Press) 'the law which gives the police a right, where no morgue exists, to compel a licensed trader to accept bodies of deceased persons.'