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Top of the table clash for the Tribesmen

The Galway Tribesmen travel to Dungarvan on Saturday to play the Waterford Vikings in rugby league's top-of-the-table clash.

Searching for the lost Mountbellew workhouse girls

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Week III

No stopping rugby league’s rampant Tribesmen

The Tribesmen continued their recent fine form with an impressive 52-0 win over the Dublin City Exiles on Saturday.

Girls escape from the workhouse into oblivion

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Week II

Summer open day at Galway City Chiropractic

Galway City Chiropractic has provided services of CAI registered chiropractic care to the public for the past 17 years.

The west’s women in STEM to take research to the streets for Soapbox Science

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n Galway next month will see a dozen female scientists from around the west of Ireland give presentations on their research on the streets of the city.

Prepare for the O’Malley invasion

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Get ready for an O’Malley invasion at the end of next week, because they are all coming to Galway for the annual O’Malley Rally. The O’Malley Clan is a worldwide association of people bearing the O’Malley name. Its aim is to foster connections between people of O’Malley heritage and promote an awareness of the history of this Gaelic Clan and later this month they are holding their 63rd annual rally family day in the grounds of Claregalway Castle while a host of other events take place across the city and county.

Rooney appoints new head of residential property management

"Well intentioned but ill advised intervention has had unintended consequences on the market." That is according to Rooney Property Consultants' new head of residential property management department, Tony Wallace.

The behaviour of the girls was causing problems

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Apart from overcrowding and disease, the biggest problem in many of the workhouses was the behaviour of young women. The women, who perhaps had been brought there as children, were now adolescent, many of them unruly and wild. They tended to be the most troublesome, involved in fighting and, on occasions, rioting. Their behaviour resulted from boredom. While males could be employed breaking stones, or farm work, there were not enough jobs for females, and no effort made to educate them or train them in any skill. By June 1850 in the Mountbellew workhouse, Co Galway, females made up 60 per cent of the inmate population. Three hundred and eighty two were adult; while 199 were aged between nine and 15 years.

Arrests for drink driving in 2017 are now up 10pc

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New data from An Garda Síochána on arrests from drink driving indicates that between January and April this year there was an increase of 18 per cent in the number of arrests for driving under the influence (DUI), compared with the same period in 2016.

 

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