Objections from merchants as Galway Corporation look to move street trade from Eyre Square.
Street traders say they have rights dating back to a charter issued by King Charles II in 1676 to operate in Eyre Square. Galway Corporation want to move the traders from Eyre Square to a car park about 100 yards away. However, some traders insist that they will not be moved from Eyre Square.
Street trading has, according to tradition, gone on here in the centre of Galway for over three hundred years.
One trader suggests going to court to establish who is entitled to operate on Eyre Square.
I'm fighting for my rights as a man with a wife and five kids to support.
His objection to the new location for the market is that there is no passing trade.
You'd see more people on the moon than what you would see down there at this particular moment.
Galway Corporation maintains that street trading on Eyre Square is now illegal.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 8 February 1979. The reporter is Jim Fahy.
