Galway In Days Gone By

‘Dangers to morality’

The Most Rev. Dr. Gilmartin, Archbishop of Tuam, has addressed the following letter to Rev. O. Hannon, Adm., Tuam: “Would you kindly warn the people against the terrible dangers to morality of allowing young girls to go to the neighbouring countries in present conditions?

“I am aware there is an agent amongst us offering our young innocent girls employment abroad at tempting wages, and it may be that, if not warned, some girls may accept the bait with disastrous consequences.

“The public Press of the last few days contains startling evidence of the degradation that this kind of employment may entail – too horrible to be mentioned – and so it is I feel bound to have our young people solemnly warned against being enticed away to destruction by the glamour of big wages in other countries.

“A girl’s virtue and honour are her best dowry, and when these are gone there is nothing left but the Dead Sea fruit of illicit enjoyment.

“Ireland has, so far, been spared the moral and physical horrors of war, and if only as an act of gratitude to God, we ought all cooperate in preserving the chastity and honour of Ireland’s daughters.”

1943

Hotelier faces fine

At Galway Court, before District Justice MacGiollarnath, John Cheevers, Forster Park Hotel, Salthill, was charged with having a public bar in his premises when he held only a hotel licence.

Mr. P.J. O’Flynn, who appeared for Cheevers, said that the only authority he could find on what constituted a public bar was a very odd one. This was a question on which there was much controversy, and he submitted that it had not yet been definitely settled.

However, Mr. Cheevers would give an undertaking that he would reconstruct his premises to the satisfaction of the guards, Mr. Cheevers had already expended a considerable amount of money in making this hotel into one of the finest in Salthill.

The District Justice said that he would adjourn the case for six months, and if Mr. Cheevers had not the place reconstructed to the satisfaction of the guards, he would be fined £10.

Soldier killed in crash

Private Patk. Quirke, aged 22, Grattan Road Terrace, Galway, was killed instantly when a military lorry crashed early on Saturday morning into a wall near Sixmilebridge, Co. Clare. The lorry struck a low wall at a crossing near the railway station and overturned. Private Quirke was thrown over the railway gates and killed instantly. Two other soldiers died later in hospital and six others were injured.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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