Kenmare incident
The Kenmare Incident, as it came to be known, was an attack in 1923 by senior Irish Army officers on two young women in their own home in Kenmare, County Kerry, Ireland. Two investigations were undertaken, one by the Garda Síochána and one by a Dublin Military Court of Inquiry. Both recommended court proceedings. After the intervention of the Minister for Defence, Richard Mulcahy and the President of the Executive Council (prime minister) W. T. Cosgrave, neither was acted upon. Initial events The Judge Advocate General Cahir Davitt was called in June 1923 to see a very irritated Adjutant General Gearóid O'Sullivan. He was handed a file, with O'Sullivan saying, "This is the worst yet." It contained details of an attack by Dublin Guard officers on young women. In the file, it was alleged that three Dublin Guard officers went to the home of Dr. Randall McCarthy in Kenmare, County Kerry. They pulled his two daughters from their beds into the garden, used their Sam Browne belts to beat them and doused their hair with dirty motor oil or cart grease. The act was, apparently, a reprisal. Civic guards investigated and found the officers to be from Kerry Command, based