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Show NO DIVORCE IN IRELAND. It is not often that parliament Is called upon nowadays to dissolve a marriage, says Marquis de Fontenoy in the New York Tribune, and the Mc-Connell Mc-Connell case, which has been recently engaging the attention of the house of lords, has served to recall the fact that Ireland-is one of the few countries in Europe the courts of which do not grant a judicial separation, but no more, " antl If an Irishman that is to say, a citizen who has his legal domicile domi-cile in Ireland wishes to get a divorce, the only manner by which he can, do so Is the costly and lengthy process of having a bill passed through parliament- dissolving the union. In the present instance the parties concerned are titled people. The petitioner in the case is Sir Robert McConnel. who received re-ceived his baronetcy while lord mayor of Belfast. |