The disgruntled Brendan Joyce at the front of his beloved Garyowen Club in Small Heath, Birmingham

TIME looks to have been finally called on Small Heath's famous Garryowen club after Birmingham City Council's licensing committee refused to allow it to re-open.
The Wordsworth Road club, which has been in existence since 1946, though on a number of different sites, has alaways been a popular venue with Birmingham's Irish community.
But the city council decided to refuse to allow the club to continue to operate after hearing submissions made by West Midlands Police.
The police cited crime and anti-social behaviour as reaons why the club, which has been closed since the beginning of the year, should not re-open.
City councillors were swayed by a personal plea by Chief Supt Steve Rowell of Stechford police, who branded it a "high risk operation" and said they had an obligation to prevent further spates of violence, theft and anti social behaviour.
The club was applying for a 24-hour drinking licence at weekends when it planned to open to the general public. Midweek opening would have been reserved for private functions.
Inspector David McCrone said police had been called out to the club 223 times in two years, even though it had only been open at weekends.

Brendan Joyce is considering appealing against the council’s decision and has also got the support of a couple of local MPs, namely John Hemming and Roger Godsiff who had a petition of support signed by many in the local community

Plans were afoot for Birmingham Euro Leisure to take a five-year lease on the club from its freeholder Brendan Joyce.
They pledged to take a tough line on security at the club and to clamp down on drunken behaviour and violence.
But Inspector McCrone said: It is my view that exactly the same people are behind it and the same people will use it."
Following the licensing hearing Brendan Joyce said he was considering appealing agains the decision.
Prior to the hearing a petition had been raised by local members of the Muslim community opposed to the granting of a 24-hour drinks licence.
However there was also a petition of support signed by many in the local community, backed by former councillor Abdul Rashid and local MPs John Hemming and Roger Godsiff.
*The Garryowen was first sited in Kings Heath and was one of a number of clubs owned by the late impressario Joe Regan and his wife Mary. Their four ballrooms in the city became known as "the Brian Epstein stables" for attracting stars including The Beatles during the early sixties. Joe once famously told the Beatles to "turn that racket down" while they were warming up at one of his Birmingham venues.
*A decision by a judge to give a community sentence to a man found in possession of a gun at the Garryowen sparked outrage in March 2004.
MPs Steve McCabe (Lab Hall Green) and Khalid Mahmood (Lab Perry Barr) called on the Government to clarify firearm laws after the Crown Prosecution Service ruled out an appeal against the judgeís decision not to jail the gunman.
A Crown Prosecution Service spokesman said it was unable to challenge the 200-hour community order imposed on Edwin Hayward by Mr Justice McKinnon at Birmingham Crown Court.
The judge accepted Haywardís claims he had found the gun in the Garryowen's car park and thought it was a cigarette lighter.
Speaking at the time Mr McCabe said: ìIt makes a complete mockery of the firearms laws if this person had a loaded gun, as has been reported, and received the punishment he did.".