Galway Advertiser 1979/1979_08_09/GA_09081979_E1_010.pdf 

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Well, thats it then, isn't it? The Races are over foi another year and we're facing into the Autumn, and the tourist season will be over in a few weeks and it seems like it only began the o t h e r d a y . Needles to mention, the pundits were right and it was another record races, with a record cashflwo of something in excess of three million quid. Now who says that there is a depression, or a shortage of cash in this poor land of ours? T h r e e million greenbacks! Just think of it. A pound for every man, woman and child in the country, why, I bet it coult feed and cloth all the unfortunate poor people in the country for a whole year, but then, who wants to feed the poor when they could be having a good time at the races, we'll worry about them tomorrow or some other day. My h e a r t i e s t congratulations to the dear old Corpo. for all the extra troops that they put on the streets gathering up the litter, even though they didn't kill themselves from overwork, they sure as anything made a tremedous difference to the state of the place, and there was not any reason to be really ashamed of the condition of the streets as there has been in the past. Salthill even holds out for a good part of the night now before becoming inundated under a mountain of chip bags. I see that the old show biz phrase, "There's a sucker born every minute', is still very appropriate in this town of ours. They queue up at the door of a closed up shop with twenty pound notes in their hands, waiting for their chance to get in and buy an anonymous box which may or may not have anything of value in it. These guys arrive in here from England, with a truck load of stuff that comes from God knows where, park their XJS Jaguar on the double yellow lines with impunity -- it's English registered - open up with a smart line in patter, and without even trying the joint is jumping with folks looking for 'Bargains' waving their money in the air. Of course, it's all legal, or so it seems, but Fm sure that there are no real bargains, and one thing ye can bet yeer Bippies on is that, when anything goes wrong with anything that ye buy from these guys, they will be long, long gone and ye can whistle a jig for any form of guarantee or redress for yeer hard earned money. Yeer a right crowd of sheep all right to be letting yeerselves be sweet talked into these so called bargains by people ye don't know and will probably never see again. Cop yeerselves on before it's too late, if it isn't already. Ye can buy transistor Radios and such from any amount

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THE WEST'S MONTHL Y MAGAZINE With Michael D. Higgins, Nollaig 6 Gadhra, Dickie Byrne, Jack Mahon, Current Affairs, Business and Industry, Farming, Sport, Motoring, Entertainment, What's on Guide and much more. of local shops for probably the same kind of money, and ye have a chance of redress if anything goes wrong inside the guarantee period, and even afterwards, it will be possible for ye to get these things repaired. Who is going to fix one of these fly by night appliances after they've busted. Imagine y e e r s e l v e s bringing a transistor that ye've bought from one of these guys in to O'Connors or Raftejy's or some such for repairs, all ye can expect is t o be courteously told where to put it and ye will have nobody but yeerselves to blame. For God's sake think ahead, support the local man, he supports ye in more ways than ye can imagine, with employment, Rates, and if that isn't enough, well at least ye know him, and the divil ye know is better than the divil ye don't know. God love ye for another week Dick Byrne.

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GALWAY SHOEING CENTRE

Thursday 9th RODNEYS GLORY

Friday 10th ALICE AND THE RIVALS Saturday 11th GALA CABARET with NIGHT

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HUGO DUNCAN AND THE RANCHERS Bar extension Sunday 12th JOE MAC TRIO Monday 13 th THE GLORY BAND

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Tuesday 14th MYSTERY
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Wednesday 15 th THE HA YMAKERS
EXCEL HAIR FASHIONS Abbeygate St. Our telephone 64107 is out of order. No appoint ments needed. Ask for Christina, Maura or Anita. JUNIOR DISCO at t h e Galway Lawn Tennis Club, Threadneedle Rd. on Saturday night, 11th August. Dancing 9--12 Tickets may be had at O'Connors T.V. Teenage Disco Club Leisureland Each Friday & Sunday 9 to 11.30 Adm. 60p

Flannery's Hotel on Friday 17th August '79 Tickets may be had from: Kevin Blaney (091) 68968 Tom McGrath 22726 Brian Curran 21968.

B R O K E N D E N T U R E S F . I. H O W A R D , Dental Laboratory, Cross Street, Galway Monday --Friday 9.00 a.m.--4.30 p.m. Remaining open during lunch hour. Phone 64385 CLOSED SATURDAY

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DOMINICK STREET SPOT GALWAY'S LATEST & GREATEST N I G H T DANCING EVERY THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY BALLROOM DANCING EVERY SUNDAY FULL BAR & RESTAURANT