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History enthusiasts and community group representatives from across County Galway have participated in a whistlestop bus tour of some of East Galway’s most intriguing built heritage sites.

Fianna Fáil Councillor, Peter Keane, has called for the restoration of Scoil Éinde Primary School as a designated feeder school for Coláiste Éinde Secondary School.

Break-in in Salthill

The Dominican Order was formally approved by Pope Honorius III in 1216, “to witness to the truth of the Christian Faith and to proclaim it at home and abroad”. St Dominic died in 1216, and in 1224 the Dominicans first came to Ireland. They came to Connacht, to Athenry, in 1241, and they finally arrived in Galway in 1488.

In the March monthly meeting of Galway City Council, in response to a question from Cllr. Niall Murphy, the executive agreed to involve councillors in the process of identifying the next set of locations for pedestrian crossings.

Comedy superstar John Bishop is getting Back At It – doing what he does best – with a new tour for 2024 including three nights across County Galway.

Around the year 1930, there were about 400 residents in Salthill and it was attracting large number of visitors and tourists who came in the summer. There was provision at the time for the building of some 100 homes. The population was growing but there was no church in the area. Any resident or tourist who wished to go to Mass had to travel into the Jesuit Church or St Joseph’s, or out west to the chapel in Barna.

The Galway City Council has denied sports clubs access to its latest all-weather pitches this week because of cold weather, but kept older astro turf pitches open.

Celebrating its 40th year and taking place from Monday February 5 to Tuesday February 13, 2024, the annual Solemn Novena nine-day Festival of Faith will invite, welcome and embrace the people of Galway and beyond to leave down the worries and cares of life and to worship, sing, pray and give praise to God and His blessed Mother, Our Lady of Perpetual Help.

The Church of Ireland Bishop of Tuam, Limerick and Killaloe, the Rt Rev’d Michael Burrows, plans to visit every church in this vast new merged diocese, which stretches from Co Mayo in the north to Co Kerry in the south and Co Limerick and parts of Offaly and Tipperary in the east.