GALWAY City and its people, famed for hospitality and their warm and welcoming ways, may not always have been so pleasant to visitors, according to archaeologists who have uncovered evidence of butchery and violent murder in the city centre hundreds of years ago.
Skeletons excavated from just outside the Eyre Square Shopping centre date from the 13th century and appear to have experienced extremely violent deaths.
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Friday, August 08, 2008