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Seamus Murphy was the officer commanding the Galway Brigade of the IRA from 1917 to 1920. He was very conservative and vetoed a lot of proposed operations. He eventually moved back to Dublin where he was heard complaining that he could not get any Galway men to fight.

Seamus Murphy was the officer commanding the Galway Brigade of the IRA from 1917 to 1920. He was very conservative and vetoed a lot of proposed operations. He eventually moved back to Dublin where he was heard complaining that he could not get any Galway men to fight.

Are you a business owner in Athlone? Are you a parent of a child attending college, or do you want to see your children get the best possible opportunity at third level in the next few years? If the answer is yes, then this is one meeting that you cannot afford to miss. The Union of Students in Ireland, in tandem with the local Students Union in AIT, would like to extend an invitation to you to attend a ‘Fed up? Stand up!’ meeting in the Radisson Hotel on Monday November 12 at 8pm.

For some reason the game of soccer seemed to be popular with Claddagh people. In the 1930s there were at least three teams representing the area. Claddagh Rangers were playing senior soccer, the equivalent of League of Ireland today, Old Claddonians were fielding teams, and by 1937, Galway Rovers were developing a youth team as well as a junior side. In their early days Rovers had no clubhouse, though the Old Malt pub could be described as a hangout, as could the Atlanta Hotel, whose owner Josie Owens had strong connections with the club.

Athlone Institute of Technology will be opening its doors to new and return students from Monday September 5, and the Students Union are urging all students to get their grants and accommodation sorted out as early as possible.

Heritage cargo boats will sail up the Nore valley on a rising tide from New Ross this weekend as they did for hundreds of years before the road and rail networks made them redundant.

Although Kilkenny Firsts secured a place in next seasons Leinster Division 2 by beating opponents Gorey (34 -13) in Foulkstown on Saturday, this week the spotlight must be shone brightly on Kilkenny Seconds who beat Gorey Seconds in the Leinster Seconds Provincial League Cup final.

Kilkenny won by a landslide in Sunday’s clash in Foulkstown against visitors Edenderry.

Kilkenny 13 Dundalk 18

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.