half past ten
Four out of the six habitués of this meeting place were already seated . Peter Walsh made the fifth . The sixth man had not yet arrived . At half past ten Timothy Sweeny left his shop and walked down to the quay . Timothy Sweeny , though not the richest , was the most important man in Rosnacree . His public house was in a back street and the amount of business which he did was insignificant compared to that done by Brannigan . But he was a politician of great influence and had been made a Justice of the Peace by a government anxious to popularise the administration of the law in Ireland .