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Last September I wrote a number of Diary entries on the wonderful reception that Galway extended to the survivors of the SS Athenia, torpedoed off the Donegal coast on September 3 1939, the very first day of the war. The ship was sunk by Fritz Julius Lemp, the commander of the U-30. The Athenia was obviously a passenger boat on its way with refugees from Europe to Canada. This wasn’t the start to the war that the German government wanted. Initially it denied that any of its submarines sank the Athenia, and suggested that it was sunk by the British on orders from Winston Churchill in the hope of getting America into the war.

Hot favourites Portumna enter the county hurling championship this weekend when they take on Tommie Larkins in Kenny Park on Saturday at 5pm.

The GLUAS light rail system was “never given a real chance” by City Hall or its transport feasibility study, but it remains a valid option for Galway city and is nowhere near as expensive as is being alleged.

These are the first photos of what could be the future of transport in Galway city, the €200 million light rail system to be known as GLUAS.

“It was like a light being switched off in a room” — so said the chairman of the Galway City Business Association, Ronnie O'Gorman when describing the speed with which the financial world collapsed, during his address to the group’s AGM on Tuesday night.

The long-awaited feasibility study into a light rail system for Galway will begin this day next week it was announced on Monday.

The Galway City Outer Bypass is dead but other transport solutions to traffic congestion in and around the city are not so it’s time to look to these other solutions and go back to the drawing board regarding the bypass.

Despite the recession, those behind the GLUAS light rail system for Galway city believe the current economic climate is actually favourable to the project.

Former EU president Pat Cox will address next week’s extraordinary group meeting of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, which will be held in Galway.

Galway had a tram in 1904 and if the GLUAS light rail system can be incorporated into the forthcoming transport plan for the city, a modern tram system will be back 110 years later in 2014.