August 12, 2010

Date Published: 12-Aug-2010

1910

Baton charge

Last night, during an attack on a bookmaker, named Donohoe, a baton charge was ordered at the Square. Donohoe appears to have had some difference with betters at the Racecourse, and he had to be accompanied to the railway station by a posse of police.

A large crowd assembled outside the Railway Hotel, where he was staying, and at one period a riot looked imminent. On the arrival of a body of police, the excitement abated somewhat, but when the bookmaker got as far as the Railway Hotel, the crowd again became threatening, and the police drew batons and dispersed them in all directions.

In the affray, it is stated, that one or two received slight injuries, an old man receiving a blow on the head which stunned him. The police say that no violence was used – in fact, the crowd rushed away so quickly that they scarcely found it necessary to use the batons.

1935

New restaurant

A first class restaurant is about to be opened by Mr. Lydon of Shop Street, Galway. Over his well-known confectionery shop in Shop Street, he has built a super restaurant, installed with the latest modern conveniences.

This new restaurant, which will be opened on Saturday, is a masterpiece of modernity. It will be capable of accommodating over two hundred people.

1960

Home-made bomb

While experimenting with chemicals and a home-made bomb, 16 and 14 year-old brothers were injured in an explosion at the rear of their home on Gort Road, Ennis, last Monday. A 15 year-old friend was blown out of the door of the shed, but only suffered shock and was not detained in hospital.

The brothers were detained in hospital, where one is suffering from head and chest injuries and the other from hand injuries – the top of his left index finger was blown off.

1985

Caravan brothel

Two ladies-of-the-night, using a caravan as a make-shift brothel and city discos as a ‘pick-up’, made a huge killing during the Galway Race Festival last week – and Gardaí were completely unaware of their presence.

The caravan was parked in Salthill and at least one nightclub owner refused two women admission on the grounds that they were using the premises as a ‘pick-up’.

“It wasn’t difficult to notice what was happening; both ladies were coming in alone and on one night left with three different men each at various times,” he said yesterday.