"Why should they shoot the people in Dublin when they let the Ulstermen do what they like ?" That was the burden of it.

It is easy to guess what was felt and thought and said in Dublin and throughout Ireland.
What Redmond said in the House of Commons is characteristic of his attitude.

He demanded that full judicial and military inquiry into the action of the troops should be held, and that proper punishment should be inflicted on those found guilty.
"But," he said, "really the responsibility rests upon those who requisitioned the troops under these circumstances.

So far as the troops are concerned, I deplore more than I can say that this has occurred--this incident calculated to breed bad blood between the Irish people and the troops.

I deplore that.