30 May – A new licensing bill was introduced by the Minister for Justice, Kevin O'Higgins. Bars were allowed to open between 9a.m. and 10p.m., and the sale of alcohol was limited to those over the age of 18.
5 June – In an austerity budget, the Minister for Finance, the only Northern Ireland Protestant to serve on a Republic of Ireland cabinet, Ernest Blythe brought in the Old Age Pensions Act 1924, which cut the pension by ten percent, from ten shillings to nine shillings (ten shillings being the equivalent of £181 in 2014). Blythe's action is remembered with bitterness in Ireland .
19 December – Dáil Éireann passed the Intoxicating Liquor Act. The law reduced pub opening hours, and closed them on Saint Patrick's Day, Good Friday, and Christmas Day.[3][4]
Undated: Urney Chocolates moved to the disused World War I era RAFairfield of Tallaght Aerodrome, County Dublin. The site had been handed over to the Irish Air Service in May 1922.[5][6][7][8]
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