October 7, 2010

1910

Wife assaultA Ballinasloe woman summoned her husband for assault. The complainant stated her husband left the house about six weeks ago and returned last Monday night week. On Saturday last he came down to the house and broke 9 panes of glass and cracked 7.

On Wednesday, he again came to the house at 8.15, and when he was inside he turned the key in the door and said he would kill her. He struck her on the side of the head with his fist and took a glass and threw it at her. He again threatened to kill her when she told the police.

D.I. Gamble stated that McDonnell was under a rule of bail. A witness stated he saw the defendant coming from Bolger’s lane to his own house and having gone inside locked the door. He heard a row going on inside and he burst in the door. Defendant had a key in his hand.

He took him outside, but did not see him strike his wife. He also saw defendant throw a glass, but he did not know whether it was at his wife or daughter.

In reply to the Chairman of the Petty Sessions, witness said he was not present all the time while the town was going on. Sergeant Connolly stated that the defendant was bound to the peace for assaulting his son, and was a man of very bad character.

Chairman: He is sentenced to two months in gaol.

Evil tipplersThe Pro-Cathedral, Galway was crowded to its utmost capacity on Sunday night when the quarterly meeting of the St. Patrick’s Temperance League of the West was held. After the Rosary, the Rev. P. Lydon, C.C., preached an instructive and practical sermon on the evils of tippling.

Between moderation and excess, he said, there was a path of intemperance more or less sinful. He alluded to the path taken by the systematic drunkards, whom one never could say had “crossed the line”. Though they were always under the influence of drink, they were not drunk: they tippled and tippled, becoming sots and spoiling their lives, losing all qualities of manliness, uprightness and honour.

The life of a tippler became as a garden where nothing grew but rank and noxious weeds. He was a greater menace to society than the drunkard, because the drunkard only inspired derision and contempt. The tippler produced no such feeling, but appeared to be always jolly, always a good fellow, and led others into his besotted condition of sinfulness. A man who lived in this condition was incapable of resisting temptation, or of living an upright and manly life.

1935

English in schoolsThe question of Irish in examinations for public appointments was the subject of a long discussion at a conference of delegates from County Galway branches of the Gaelic League held in St. Ignatius College, Galway, on Saturday. Tomas O’Deirg, Minister for Education, was criticised for his attitude on the question.

Padraig Feeney said that in a recent examination for woodwork teachers through Irish, the questions were entirely in English on the paper and related to films or Hollywood stars with which only city people would be acquainted. There had been no centre for that examination in Connacht. He considered that the standard of English for public examinations of this kind was too high and the standard of Irish was too low.

Mr Waldron said that the fact that the Government do not hold Irish should be a necessary subject for the intermediate and leaving certificate examination was a sign that they were bending the knee to the foreign element in Dublin.

Hollywood starMr. Charles (Buddy) Rogers, the well-known American film star, paid a short visit to Galway on Wednesday. Mr Rogers had long wished to visit Ireland, particularly the West, and a short break between films in which he is engaged gave him the opportunity of fulfilling this desire.

He flew from Croydon to Dublin on Tuesday, and arrived in Galway on Wednesday morning. He missed the Dun Aengus to Aran, but chartered a motorboat at Costelloe to which he had travelled by road.Mr. Rogers returned to Galway on Thursday morning and left for Dublin by the 3.30 train.

Mr. Rogers was shown over the city by Miss Kathleen Curran, of the Galway Steamship Company, and expressed himself as being delighted with everything he saw.

Ticket fraudThe Connacht Senior Football Final had a sequel at Roscommon District Court on Tuesday before Mr. J.P. Kenny, D.J. when two men were charged with having conspired with persons unknown to defraud the Gaelic Athletic Association Ltd by collecting and reselling used admission tickets to Roscommon Sports Field, and by unlawfully receiving money for said tickets from persons unknown entering the field on July 21. Both men were fined £2 each and £2 10s in expenses.

For more, read this week's Connacht Tribune.