September 27, 2012

Date Published: 26-Sep-2012

1912

Tramp charged

At Athenry Petty Sessions, a tramp named Kennedy was charged with breaking into the house of Mrs. Freaney, Mountain West, and stealing a half pound of tea, a gun metal watch, and cap value 4s 6d. Mrs. Freaney verified her deposition.

Constable Cooke, Moyvilla, deposed to having arrested the defendant about 22 miles from Moyvilla on the day of the larceny. He then had in his possession the watch and was wearing the cap. He made no statement when charged previous to arrest.

Chairman: What have you got to say for yourself, do you plead guilty?

Defendant: I do sir, I had a drop of drink taken. I was working on the docks in Dublin, and I came down to Galway for the races. I was afterwards working in Sligo.

Chairman: What happened you that you went in through this woman’s window? – It was fair day in Galway, and I had a few shillings, and I took a drop of drink.

A month’s imprisonment was the order of the Bench.

1937

Worst parking in Ireland

The parking problem, which was under discussion some time ago in Galway, and has since been in abeyance, will be in the news soon again. An authority on traffic regulations has described it as being “the worst in Ireland”.

It was adjourned while a scheme was being considered in Dublin, and now the solution for the difficulty there, as dealt with in the new traffic regulations, will be applied to the problem in Galway if it is considered practicable.

It has, in recent years, been very acute in Galway City, and any remedy to deal with it should find favour generally. The new regulations as they affect the difficulty in Dublin have not, however, met with the wholehearted approval of the motoring public there and the arrangement will in all probability come in for a certain amount of criticism if adopted here also.

Motorists have always enjoyed the freedom of parking, more or less anywhere they pleased, so long as they did not cause an obstruction in the thoroughfare, and it is not to be expected that they will all take to the idea of having to put their cars away somewhere less central or convenient.

Although no ideal parking ground has suggested itself, there are a number of places which might be made available, and whichever ones might be decided upon, the location, having regard to the size of the city, cannot be so much out of the way as to seriously inconvenience anyone.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.