Nine Trinity College students in court for disorder

A series of fines and a remand for further trial were handed down to nine students of Trinity College Dublin at the Southern Police Court today.

The courtroom was filled with other students who heard evidence that the nine students before the court had attacked a cabman and damaged his cab and had also attacked the premises of the Irish Women’s Franchise League causing £5 worth of damage and assaulting some of the women inside.

The campanile on the campus of Trinity College (Image: National Library of Ireland, LROY 02507)

The disorderly behaviour had taken place during the ‘Trinity Monday’ celebrations in the college and was condemned by the magistrate as ‘blackguardly and cowardly’.