Nationalist, February, 1921. Raids and Arrests. In the past few weeks lorries laden with soldiers arrived in Killeshin and district, the houses visited being those of Messrs. John Gaffeny, William Rourke, Thomas Curran, and Henry Bolton's Kelogue. No arrests were made. Messrs. John Dunne, Patrick Byrne, and Thomas Whitney, all of Monure were also visited and searched but nothing was found. On Friday week an exhaustive and fruitless search was made at a sandpit near Stradbally, and digging operations were carried on for some time. So far as can be ascertained the excavations revealed no discoveries. AUXILIARIES VISIT TO CARLOW. Early on Sunday morning a lorry load of cadets visited Carlow and searched the following houses --- Mr Gerald Donnelly's, Mr. Michael Hughes's and Mrs. Leonard's in Tullow Street. There was nothing found in any of the places. Jim McDarby, Graiguecullen, was sentenced to 12 months, instead of four, as published in last week's issue. On Sunday, about noon, the military visited Stradbally, and arrested Michael J. O'Connor, Sculptor, Stradbally, and conveyed him to Maryborough. On Monday morning the police arrested John Nolan, The Hermitage, Monasterevan, and brought him to Portarlington Barracks. [ note added in 2010. there was an "informer" at work as all of the people named above were active members of the I.R.A., and all the houses raided were regarded as "safe-houses" by republicans, ----The information that the military was operating under was spot on...]