 Actually, O’Brien put more life into the country in the first six months of the League than the Nationalist party had aroused in years, after widespread agrarian agitation recommenced in 1898.The clergy in the district around Westport and Newport, County Mayo promoted the League with considerable zeal, one parish priest called for a branch "to hunt the grabbers and Scottish graziers out of the country ".Elsewhere the clergy were in no hurry to sanction the League's agitation.