1917
Pinned beneath car
While driving at 10 o’clock on Sunday morning, near Costello Bay with Mr. Rodgers, Divisional Officer of Coastguards, James Brennan, car driver, of Rosemary Lane, Galway, was pinned underneath his car, which capsized, and when released, life was found to be extinct. When the horse began to get restless, Mr. Rodgers jumped off the car, but Mr. Brennan remained on his seat, and endeavoured to control the animal, which, however, bucked the car into a trench alongside the road. The horse fell, and the car turned over on the side the driver was sitting, pinning him underneath, and when extricated, Mr. Brennan was dead. He was 70 years of age, and was well known in Galway. The road at this point is extremely dangerous.
Great poverty
At the Galway Board of Guardians, a report was read from Mr. Kyne, R.O., stating that around Kilcommer in the Spiddal district, there were several families urgently in need of relief for the next two or three months. They had no money to purchase meal, flour and other necessary articles or provisions. All stocks of old potatoes are exhausted, and there are no prospects of new ones before 1st August.
1942
Drink price hike
Although the Galway publican pays more for his porter than his Dublin contemporary, the man who drinks a pint of that beverage gets it for a penny less than in Dublin. This fact was pointed out to our representative when he made inquiries into the increase in the price of some alcoholic drinks which was decided on last Friday by the Licensed Branch of the Galway Traders Association.
At this meeting, it was decided to increase the price of the bottle of stout in Galway from sixpence-halfpenny to sevenpence and to have a flat rate of two shillings a glass for all brands of whiskey.
One well-known trader told our representative that the price of drink in Galway compared very favourably with the prices obtaining elsewhere. The price of a bottle of stout, he said, was raised to sevenpence in Wexford, Cork and Limerick many months ago.
Mr. Larry Hynes, Shop-street, said that it was rather an extraordinary state of affairs that the pint was dearer in Dublin than in Galway. In Dublin, a publican was allowed for waste and it was taken back from him. Galway publicans were not made any allowance for waste.
“In addition, we in Galway have to pay freight on our porter, but in Dublin it is delivered without any charge. Yet, we sell the pint a penny cheaper in Galway,” he said.
New Prom
Galway Corporation has decided to ask Galway Golf Club to give them a ninety-nine years lease of a grass margin between the golf links and the foreshore at Blackrock for the purpose of carrying out improvements for the convenience of bathers. Messrs. Blake and Kenny, solicitors, wrote stating that as the Corporation would have to expend some money in laying a pathway and erecting a fence they should get a lease of the pathway for at least ninety-nine years renewable.
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