Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
Case building
James Connolly sued Peter Kelly for £27 13s. due for work carried to defendant’s house – Mr. Hogan, solr., appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Mulcair defended.
Mr. Hogan said the plaintiff was a building contractor. In 1916 he contracted with the defendant to build a house for the sum of £95.
Outside the contract the plaintiff did certain work at the request of the defendant, who had since been promising payment, but so far the matter had not been settled.
Plaintiff, having given particulars of extra work carried out, stated his claim in respect of same was £22 13s. He also claimed £5 promised by the defendant on the original contract if the work was carried out expeditiously.
His Honour: I fear I cannot allow the £5.
Mr. Mulcair stated that Mr. Taylor, engineer, had recently inspected the house and certified the plaintiff was entitled to £21 over the contract price. They were prepared to pay that amount.
His Honour adjourned the case to Galway sessions for the production of receipts in respect of payments made by the plaintiff for material purchased for the defendant’s house.
Flooded with neglect
At the weekly meeting of the Galway Urban Council yesterday (Thursday) Mr. Martin Redington presided. Present: Messrs. J.S. Young, J.P.; M.J. Crowley, Mtn. Cunningham, W.J. Silke, J.J. McDonnell, Mtn. Donnellan, T.C. McDonogh, J.P.; Mtn. Moloney, and F.J. Bailey.
Mr. Silke drew attention to the flooding on Dominick-st. on the previous night, which, he said, was owing to there being now nobody to look after the condition of the streets, and the consequent choking of the drains.
The water rose after the heavy rain and flooded into some of the shops. A similar flooding of premises took place last year when the Council received a solicitor’s letter.
Something ought immediately to be done – it was impossible that such a state of things should be permitted to drag on from day to day; the streets were in a terrible state, and such flooding as of the previous night was very dangerous, and people and goods might be destroyed in their houses.
1944
Opportunity injustice
Having heard a complaint that only girls who had an intermediate certificate or a matriculation certificate could sit for an examination for entrance to the nursing profession at Galway Central Hospital, the Galway County Vocational Education Committee on Wednesday decided to ask Mr. C.I. O’Flynn , Co. Manager, if that was so and, in the event of the complaint being well founded, to protest against the “unfair discrimination” against students of vocational education schools and demand the abolition of the clause.
Pitch for South Park
A proposal is to be put before Mr. C.I. O’Flynn, County Manager, by officers of the West Galway Board of the G.A.A. for the liquidation of the interest of the Carnegie Trust in South Park and the acquisition of portion of the park for development into a G.A.A pitch.
The decision was made at the annual convention of the West Galway G.A.A. clubs in the National Club, Galway, on Saturday, after reference had been made to the cost of renting the Galway Sports Ground and the difficulty of getting the use of the Sports Ground for games in Winter.
The Convention also decided to sponsor the organisation of hurling and football leagues and minor competitions every Winter in the city in aid of the funds of the St. Vincent de Paul Society.
On the proposition of Mr. P. Higgins, it was decided to present medals for juvenile hurling in the schools (under 18 league).
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1923
Gloom after war
The special correspondent of the “Independent”, who has been writing of the aftermath of civil war in the West, notes that a feeling of apathy, due to the uncertainty of events, exists amongst the sorely-tried people of Connemara; that politics are referred to only with disgust and that not more than fifty per cent. of the people would vote at a general election; that poverty and unemployment are rife, and there is a growing tendency towards emigration; and that there are bitter complaints of the huge impost of rates and taxes.
It is only too true that there is enough of material for the pessimist to brood over, and that a feeling of gloom permeates country towns. But it is a poor tribute to patriotism that has survived such horrors to encourage this gloom.
It is the duty of all of us to get this pessimism out of the national body and to rid ourselves of the notion that we have not enough Christianity and moral sense left to restore our people to cheerful and ordered progress and industry.
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1923
Peace negotiations
As we go to press, An Dáil is discussing the Peace negotiations between the Government and Mr. de Valera. It was announced on Wednesday for the first time that such negotiations were begun following Mr. de Valera’s “cease fire” proclamation of April 27, and that by the 30th of the month Senators Andrew Jameson and James Douglas were asked by him to discuss proposals.
They said it was for the Government to discuss; they could only confer. Into the ensuring conferences the Government declined to enter personally, but on May 3 the senators placed before Mr. de Valera the Cabinet’s terms, which were that future issues should be decided by the majority vote of the elected representatives of the people, and that as a corollary and a preliminary to the release of prisoners, all lethal weapons should be in the custody and control of the Executive Government.
Mr. de Valera relied to this on May 7 with a document in which he agreed to majority rule and control of arms, but added that arms should be stored in a suitable building in each province under armed Republican guard until after the elections in September, that the oath should not be made a test in the councils of the nation, and that all political prisoners should be released immediately on the signing of this agreement.
“You have brought back to us,” wrote President Cosgrave, “not an acceptance of our conditions, but a long and wordy document inviting debate where none is possible”.
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1923
State of the parties
Speculation as to parties after the next Irish elections is exceedingly interesting, especially in view of the enlarged franchise.
In Dublin, the view appears to be held by a number of people that Labour will make a great bid for power.
Dublin, however, has a curiously insular habit of thought where matters that concern all Ireland and in which Ireland has a say are concerned. We hope this insularity will rapidly disappear under the new conditions.
The country as a whole is backing the Farmers’ Party, and has not the smallest doubt that it will be the strongest combination in the next Dáil, and that it will oust the purely political parties, the one because it has resorted to force, the other because it has been compelled to use force to supress force, and the Labour Party because Ireland feels that at the back of its policy lurks the danger of Communism.
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