Galway In Days Gone By

1922

Poteen sensation

Quite a sensation was created in Dominick Street, Galway, yesterday (Thursday) evening when the licensed premises of Mr. John Hosty were raided by I.R.P. in charge of Battalion-Officer McAvinue, and there was much amazement when a few minutes later the police emerged carrying with them a large number of apparatuses used in the making of poteen.

A Crossley tender from the Battalion Headquarters, Lenaboy Castle, next arrived on the scene and the captured apparatus was placed on it. It would appear that information reached the Battalion-Officer of traffic in illicit spirits and a search of the premises was decided on.

On a garret a number of articles used in illicit distillation was found, including still pot, still “worm”, cap of pot head, bush, two barrels, a barometer (said to be used only by expert distillers).

A number of bottles smelling strongly of poteen were found on the premises. A man named Mackie, who was on the scene while the stuff was being taken out of the house, was arrested by the Volunteer police on a charge of obstruction. He was also placed in the tender and taken to Lenaboy.

Election delay

The elections in Ireland will not take place until the Bill constituting the Free State has pass the British Parliament. There is a growing feeling that these elections should be held at the earliest possible moment.

The Irish nation is at present undergoing the pangs of rebirth. The process has not been an easy or simple one in the history of any country. Forces which make for evil and mischief always come to the surface at such a time and make the period of transition subserve their full purpose.

The condition of Ireland and the things that have been happening of a political character otherwise during recent weeks have tended to produce in some a spirit of gloom and pessimism. We think that there is no need for either. Ireland on the whole has come out of the most difficult period in her long history with infinite credit to herself.

The sprit everywhere has been to restore peace; even where the machinery for restoring it was not always clothed in full authority, the peace has been maintained by the plain citizens of Ireland. If there have been regrettable breaches, if some men have carried a sprit of war into an era of peace, the fault does not lie with Irishmen as a whole, who now that the Black-and-Tannism has been routed from our midst will, directly after they get their own governmental machine working properly, give short shrift to the home-manufactured imitators.

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