Viewed in comparison with Lord Kitchener's original anticipations, the result might well be called "magnificent." But it was necessary to maintain the same weekly average, and for four months the figure had been much below this.

The result of the new campaign was to raise nearly 7,500 men in seven weeks.
In the campaign thus launched, as Redmond so keenly desired, under the joint auspices of Ulstermen, Southern Unionists and Nationalists, one circumstance attracted attention.

It was proposed to hold a great meeting at Newry, the frontier town where Ulster marches with the South--a centre in which recruiting had been singularly keen and successful.

The scheme was to unite on one platform the Lord-Lieutenant, Redmond and Sir Edward Carson.

Sir Edward Carson, however, "did not think the proposal would serve any useful purpose," and the meeting was held without him, in December 1915.
By this time the Sixteenth Division was under orders for France.