The Irish R.M.

Major Sinclair Yeates, an Englishman, arrives in a rural area of Victorian Ireland. He has married his colonel's daughter and has decided to take up a new career as a Resident Magistrate. Major Yeates quickly meets the hard-riding Knox clan, including Great Uncle McCarthy and young Flurry Knox, his landlord.

Yeates and his cousin Basil fear their careers are ruined when they are caught in a police raid at the Brickleys.

Major Sinclair Yeates has settled in as a magistrate in rural Ireland. Mrs Cadogan is always full of surprises. Flurry Knox is in love with his cousin, and it seems that neither love nor fire should always be taken at face value.

On the eve of the annual local regatta, family rivalries are aggravated when the Callaghans inform the police that the Foleys are planning a salmon poaching trip. The Foleys wriggle off the hook in Court, but trouble is brewing.

Simon Smiley introduces moving pictures; Yeates unknowingly allows a group to perform a banned play.