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The business end of the club football season well and truly starts this weekend seeing the first of the intermediate quarter-finals and finishing with two mouth-watering senior football clashes in Tuam Stadium on Sunday afternoon.

Reigning champions Corofin will face Salthill/Knocknacarra and 2020 winners Maigh Cuilinn will play Tuam Stars in the last four of the senior football championship.

As Ireland celebrates a century of diplomatic ties with the United States, University of Galway, Queen’s University Belfast and University College Cork are partnering with the Irish Institute of Boston College to explore US-Ireland relations and peacebuilding.

As the All Ireland Drama Festival reaches its conclusion, local councillor Aengus O’Rourke has paid due tribute to artist Ruth Ryan whose recent portrait of PJ Lenihan now adorns the wall of the Dean Crowe Theatre.

There’s a new sheriff in town, and he’s unhappy with Galway’s terrible trash issue.

After scoring 1-1 in injury time to defeat Leitrim last Friday a developmental Galway side now face Roscommon this Friday in the FBD final for the eighth time in ten years.

Galway-based MedTech innovator Aerogen has marked a significant milestone this week with the production of its 20 millionth nebulizer.

Four-quarter finals in the Galway Football Intermediate Championship take place this weekend with all eight teams vying to reach senior status.

On January 15, 1827 two Patrician Brothers, Paul O’Connor and James Walsh, took up residence in Lombard Street and set up the Monastery School. The attendance on that first day was 300 boys, many of whom had little interest in learning because they were poor and hungry. So the Brothers set up The Poor Boy’s Breakfast Institute in May 1830. It continued seven days a week, 365 days a year for many years after the founders' time. The breakfast consisted of porridge with molasses or treacle, and during the Famine, they fed 1,000 boys every day. The ‘Old Mon’ became a vital cog in education in Galway.

Round two of the Galway senior football championship promises to be a big weekend for plenty of teams - those disappointed with their first-round results and others who want to kick on and guarantee their progress or safety as quickly as possible.