... adequate space for the boatmen; ventilation anil weather protection were not well designed. The new motor boats were a distinct advance on the old boats, the matter accomodation for the men. A system of regular inspection of boatmen quarters was agreed to ...

... steering his barque a song of the open ce.i ai'-d '.he girl left behind, ion n;:iv think 1 am joking, but no; the* *enal boatmen’s repertory of songs the ocean blue filled a large part. may have seemed dull fellow lazed at the tiller, but had imagination ...

... Brigid Hughes, St. Fra mas St., Edenderry. Canal Strike. It is stated that the Grand Canal Co. have made an offer to the boatmen with the object of bringing close the strike which has been progress for several weeks, but the strikers have refused the ...

... “judicial hanging” was returned by Dr. D. A. MacErlean and a jury an inquest held later in the prison. On the Connemara coast the boatmen are now gathering seaweed for use as fertiliser; pictures In this week’s Times Pictorial show how the work Is done In frail ...

... should be additional attraction for the festive season. Apart from this the obiecfc of the dance is to sup|>ort the life boatmen round our Irish coast. large and influential Humber of patrons together with representative committee are sparing efforts ...

... live iu lofts. Tbe inhabitants living above Athy in that direction have to enter the town by boat, and curious to slate tbe boatmen of the Barrow are earning substantial ages rowing people down the Rathstewart “Road.” Around Cloney and Bert over a score ...

... eign of liquor in the -nop tho time. I know that boats come the canal throe times week aad stop at tho canal harbour. The boatmen etay town, the horses to fed, but 1 don’t know horeet were fed at Bacon'e. The public-house adjoining canal eloroa. Bacon ...

... TELEGRAFA AN ROINN FOIST ABUS Photo by * BOATMEN WERE COLD Daingein Timber Larceny The men were cold and had no way of cooking their food on the boat, said Michael Dempsey (23), Portlaoise, employed C.I.E. (Canal Section), when ho was charged, with Thomas ...

... moving at the time and he was probably swept out to the centre of the canal where the water was deepest. At the inquest three boatmen gave evidence that they searched for the deceased, who was a non-swimmer, without avail. They mentioned that the youth at ...

... •». boat.” is the cruel cry ,c R'-ver boatmen haw thrown into the faces df poor and homeless flood victims who without being abK» to nay. ask to be taken from the housetops and tree tops to dry land. The boatmen in regular service demand outrageous sums ...

... Constable Ca« low-oraigue, stated that Ho ro and he a fairly w©H inducted boy noibing against him. It was very common fur boatmen to steal dogs and convey them along their boats. Defendant was to jail for two mon'hs, with hard labour, aud Talbot was awarded ...

... Illness at Tullamore hospital last oeek, was member of oM local family. Aged SO years the deceased bad spent most of his life boatmen with the Grand Canal Co. In recent years tbe deceased suffered bom heart trouble and had lived very re- ...