Not sure if this is the same family as I can only view this snippet.
Carlow Nationalist, 7 July 1894: Hacketstown Petty Sessions. Thursday. Before Colonel Dennis, (chairman), Messrs R.R. Kennedy, R.M. and J.O. Adair. Curious Charge Of Larceny. Two women named Bridget Byrne and Mary Byrne, mother and daughter were prosecuted …
Looks to be the right family. Husband of Bridget a dealer. They were sent for trial at the following Carlow assizes, for stealing whiskey from their next door neighbor, a publican - even though he agreed with their explanation (that they had purchased it), and gave them a good character! Was not at his prosecution, but the prosecution of the RIC.
From the evidence, the family was drinking one to 1.5 pints of whiskey per day, every day.
Personally, I find it difficult to believe they could possibly have been found guilty based on the evidence outlined at the petty session hearing, and it was ... strange ..... that they were sent for trial. British justice in action.
