The New Zealander who became front page news during the War of Independence

New Zealander Hori Morse served as an Auxiliary in Tralee, Co Kerry, during the War of Independence, when the town was international news. In 1921, he began an affair with a married woman and would himself become a front-page story, says Ryle Dwyer

LITTLE has been written about what happened to the Auxiliaries after they left Ireland in 1922. One of those men did hit the headlines abroad over a torrid love affair that he began with an older, married Irish woman, while he was based in Tralee, in 1921.

She abandoned her husband and three children to live with him in Australia.