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The drama of human endurance being tested by the most demanding of natural locations is at the core of a stunning new documentary to be shown on RTE 1 next Wednesday. The trailer for the documentary Man vs Ocean - 112 Days whets the appetite for the retelling of the epic journey of Damien Browne and Fergus Farrell as they embarked on an extraordinary expedition to cross the treacherous North Atlantic Ocean from New York City to Galway.

Soon, it will become as iconic as the box of USA biscuits at Christmastime or the Guinness Book of Records. There is immense pride in Galway at the local initiative that resulted in the Old Ireland In Colour series that sprung forth a few years ago and went on to smash every bookselling record in the country.

The Cliffs of Moher in County Clare has been voted Ireland’s Most Instagrammable Destination at the 2023 ITTN Travel2ireland Awards.

What memories do you have of your schooldays? Here are some reminiscences of a few old ‘Jes-mugs’.

Aran Island Ferries hosted a Galway Chamber ‘Connect Series’ event last week, giving members of the Chamber an opportunity to network while enjoying a pleasurable cruise on the Bay.

This is a rare opportunity to buy an outstanding home location on the waterfront, close to Salthill, with full planning permission for a modern five bedroom, three storey architect designed detached residence.

A native of the Aran islands which has produced writers Liam O Flaithearta, Máirtín Ó Direáin and Breandán Ó hEithir, Padraig is proudly bilingual both as a conversationalist and a songwriter. Padraig’s song about the islands ‘Making Sand’ was nominated for Best Original Song at the 2022 RTE Folk Music Awards and it was Number 1 in the Radio 1 Airplay chart for four weeks in summer 2022.

A native of the Aran islands which has produced writers Liam O Flaithearta, Máirtín Ó Direáin and Breandán Ó hEithir, Padraig is proudly bilingual both as a conversationalist and a songwriter. Padraig’s song about the islands ‘Making Sand’ was nominated for Best Original Song at the 2022 RTE Folk Music Awards and it was Number 1 in the Radio 1 Airplay chart for four weeks in summer 2022.

Ireland’s seabed mapping programme, INFOMAR, has launched a new series of blue scale maps, featuring 18 high-resolution bathymetric maps of Ireland’s coastal waters, beginning with a high resolution map of Galway Bay.

Efforts to increase the population of the corncrake in the west and north of Ireland appear to be paying off, with the numbers recorded in the core breeding areas of Mayo, Donegal and Galway having increased by 15% since 2022 - according to the latest survey from the National Parks and Wildlife Service - which shows an overall increase of 35% in the corncrake population in the past five years.