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Jumping the queue in a Galway barbershop and taking up a scissors to cut his own hair earned a DIY barber two months in custody when he appeared before the District Court.

A MAN found by Gardaí in a drunken state and who was threatening to kill a female, was in possession of a box-cutter knife when he was searched and was warned “never darken this door again” by a Judge when he was brought before Monday’s sitting of Galway District Court.

Frank McDonagh and Company were wholesale and retail drapers and outfitters that opened in Williamsgate Street in 1883. In early advertisements, they described themselves as “Successors to M. Hennessy, the house for original Claddagh cloaks as supplied to the Royal family”.

This very attractive study of Mr And Mrs Broderick from Ballintemple was taken in Williamsgate Street c1885. They were all dressed up coming into town for the fair or market ... she in her Sunday best and he in his plus fours, tail coat, and top hat. Many people who came in from the country for the occasions like this would have been similarly dressed.