10 FEBRUARY 1917, Page 3

The election in North Roscommon brought three candidates into the

field. In the result, Count Plunkett was returned, by a majority of over six hundred over the two other candidates, Air. Thomas Devine, the official Nationalist, and Mr. Jasper Tully, formerly M.P. for South Leitrim, who stood as an Independent Nationalist. As the father of Sinn Fciners, one of whom was executed for complicity in the Dublin outline:, Count Plunkett was undoubtedly supported by the irreconcilable element, and his success is not merely a blow to the official Nationalist Party, but an ominous proof of the strength and popularity of the Sinn Fein movement,