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So Stephen Folan’s cross channel venture continues. A splendid spell sprinkled with hope has brought Galway’s freshest footballer into reserve team fare at the tender age of 16. Though only nine months as a professional with Newcastle United smooth progress is being made by Folan in the north east of England.

Seventy people have been interviewed by Gardai in Mullingar in relation to the Dalton Park riot in July, and a comprehensive file has been sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions, according to Inspector Jarlath Folan. Inspector Folan was speaking at a sitting of Mullingar District Court yesterday, Thursday October 16.

Judge John Neilan told the Mullingar man charged with a public order offence that the people of the town needed to be apologised to, before making an order excluding him from all licensed premises in his district for the next 12 months, at the local court last week.

Football can still provide hope and a release from the mundane chores. Far from Krakow and Warsaw a significant Polish crowd gathered at Croke Park for Wednesday’s international friendly as if to offer a reminder of the impact an international has. There was a surge of nationalistic pride accompanying them in the old town, and there was a touch of a certain summer way back in 1994 when it was those of Irish descent that were sprinkled around the United States of America.

A Mullingar man who was abusive at a taxi rank has been fined €800 and warned that if he appears before the court again, he faces jail.

Inspector Jarlath Folan said he was not prepared to accept a guilty plea to assault when Derek McKevitt of 139 Ashfield was charged with assault causing harm.

A Tullamore man who stole a box of 24 bottles of beer told gardaí “I was drunk and I’m sorry” when he was charged with the theft at Tesco, Mullingar on August 24 this year.

Bail has been granted to a Mullingar man who replied “don’t f**king touch me, you pig” to gardaí when charged with public intoxication.

A man who got into a row with bouncers who wouldn’t let him get his jacket has been fined €250 for public order offences.

I am not sure when the game of soccer was first played competitively in Galway or who were the first teams. It seems to have been a popular sport in the Claddagh. In the early 1930s a team called Claddagh Rangers were playing senior soccer which is the equivalent of League of Ireland today. Another team from the area around that time was Old Claddonians, but the club we are concerned with today is Galway Rovers. In their early days, they had no clubhouse, though the Old Malt pub and the Atlanta Hotel could be described as hangouts. One of their earliest teams, as we see in photograph 1, won the Celtic Shield in 1933.