20 MAY 1916, Page 2

We have mentioned above how a Dublin unit of the

Volunteer Training Corps received its baptism of blood—unhappily, not at the hands of the foe, but in civil strife—and have told the thrilling story elsewhere. As we have also pointed out, the gallant men of the Irish "Veterans " were a force raised on exactly the same lines as the V.T.C. Volunteers of England and Scotland. Though the existing rules do not permit of actual affiliation with the Central Association, the Irish V.T.C. are in such close touch with it as in effect to be virtually affiliated. Like a similar body in Belfast, they are the wearers of the red " G.R." brassard, and fought with that brassard on their arms.