Shouldn't it be "Howya" rather than "Howdy" - I know you're in the west, but Galway's hardly the Wild West, like Louisburgh or Westport
I don't remember a heavily drunken night out in Leenane either, nor one in Tuam where a Garda gave me a lift back to my B&B, on the back of his motorbike at about 2am after a session in the New Man of Aran - no helmet, but he said because I was behind him he couldn't see me to book me for riding a motorcycle without a helmet