Galway In Days Gone By

1916

Street nuisance

At Galway Petty Sessions, Mr. Hildebrand said that with regard to ball playing on streets, he had often intended to take action since he came to Galway, which was a decided nuisance.

He notices that the boys in the city were not good-mannered boys, they did not wait for passengers to pass, but actually continued to play while people were passing by. He would, therefore, like a pronouncement from the bench of the matter.

Chairman Joseph Kilbride, R.M.: Market-street is about the worst.

Mr. Hildebrand: Particularly on a Sunday. I do not like to be a new brook; I did not ever care for it, but this thing ought to be put down.

Mr. J.S. Young said he was going to mention the matter. In regard to this offence, he decided to say that the Urban Council had over and over again asked the police to take action. The practice by boys of playing ball and pitch-and-toss in the streets had become a nuisance.

Mr. Hildebrand: Very well; let it go forth that we are not active in a vindictive manner, that we are taking action by the concurrence of the magistrate.

Success assured

As we write this (Friday) morning, the preparations for the great Cathedral Bazaar are all but completed, and Eyre Square is already offered a foretaste of the week’s gaiety.

The entrance from the Bank of Ireland side is flanked with monster marquees, that to the right being where the countless couples will “trip the light fantastic too” in a week’s revelry in which joy will be unconfined.

Other white canvas structures stand around, scarcely, if at all, less spacious, while further down the green plot is dotted with small tents suggestive, but not quite of the bell-shape. It is all very showy, picturesque and summery, and makes a vivid appeal to the imagination.

1941

Bog dispute settled

A settlement has at last been reached in the Glenaun bog dispute and it is expected that work will be resumed towards the end of this week. Most of the forty-six men involved will be accommodated immediately, and it is hoped that the whole number will be at work in a very short time.

Worst attendance

Killimore was one of the worst districts in the whole East Galway Court area as regards attendance at school, said District Justice Cahill, at Killimore Court. In some cases the attendance was very bad, perhaps the worst for this time of the year of any other district.

Ploughing body

“I hope that whatever changes may come the plough will never again be let down for the sake of foreign interests,” said Mr. Michael Donnellan, Dunmore, in thanking the Galway County Ploughing Association on Saturday for his election as chairman of the Association. The country, he said, had at long last come to realise that the day the plough was let down, the country would go down with it.

Galway still on top

Galway 0-8 Roscommon 1-4

Galway senior footballers were hard pressed to retain the Connacht title on Sunday at Roscommon. Only by a single point did they defeat Rosommon and qualify to meet either Cavan or Tyrone in the All-Ireland Semi-Final at Croke Park on August 17th.

Indeed, Roscommon were the better team in many aspects of the game and it was only the craft gained by long experience that saved Galway from a trouncing.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.