US politicians cross line of Irish allegiance

Relations between Ireland and the US could be strained in the 1970s, writes Caroline O’Doherty.

THE Mayor of New York received a rap on the knuckles from an Irish diplomat for supporting a rally in commemoration of hunger striker Frank Stagg.

In a forthright letter to Mayor Abraham Beame, Irish consul general in New York, Gearóid O’Clerigh, told him his attendance at a mass and demonstration in the city had caused the Irish Government concern.