The London correspondent of the Cork Free Press at the time was Frank Gallagher, a Cork native and from 1915 its third editor, who though himself a separatist, personally admired O'Brien.Maume, P.: The long Gestation "Who's Who" p.229 He had attempted to dissuade O'Brien from his decision to support the war, as he was rightly worried about the negative effects it would have on circulation and on the League,O'Brien, J. V.: William O'Brien.... p.213 particularly since rising losses and paper shortages forced the paper to become a weekly in mid-1915.
