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Clonkill 2-12

Week II

The adult side finished their league programme away to Castlepollard last week and while they were easily defeated the team produced a spirited display.

In a high scoring contest, Southern Gaels defeated Delvin in Páirc Chiaráin to qualify for the Division 2 league final with one round to spare.

One does not have to dig very deep into the archives to find evidence of wholescale corruption, pervasive nepotism, and general theft of public monies by public representatives and officials in nineteenth-century Mayo.

A new student sexual health service was launched at the Technological University of the Shannon (TUS) in Athlone this week, coinciding with SHAG week - a national event intended to raise sexual health awareness.

Edward Krumm was 5ft 11in, 26 years old, a bachelor and a member of the Church of England from Middlesex. He was a lorry driver with the Black and Tans and had been in Galway three weeks when he arranged to meet a civilian driver he had come to know in a pub in Abbeygate Street. This man, Christopher Yorke, described Krumm as a “generally reckless fellow who drank a lot”. Krumm was fairly drunk, brandishing a revolver and bragging that he could knock the neck off a bottle at 10 yards' range, and apparently shot at a few bottles in the pub.

1925

Next week a commemoration will be held to remember the tragic explosion of a sea mine, 100 years ago on June 15 1917, at Lochán Beag about three miles west of An Spidéal.