Excitement around the fields of Woodford in 1968
THERE was a lot of excitement around the fields of Woodford by the time May Day arrived in 1968 – nearly 53-years ago – as can be seen from the file pictures unearthed by Connacht Tribune staff photographer, Joe O’Shaughnessy.
According to the May 3 edition of the Connacht Tribune in 1958, ‘over 100 men turned out to give a hand’ with the construction of the new community sportsground in the South Galway village.
The new sports ground and park was earmarked to have a games field, a sandpit for swings, and a riverside walk and the project certainly caught the imagination of the Connacht Tribune editor of that time.
The Tribune’s editorial of that edition was devoted to the Woodford project, effusive in its praise of the locals for their voluntary effort into the sports field project. The editorial opened with the following lines:
“We sent a photographer to Woodford recently to get pictures of men at work. Had they been working for own personal gain, we would not have been interested, but these men were giving their labour without financial reward for the welfare of the young people of the district . . .
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