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Cork close out Galway in end of tight camogie contest
In a repeat of last year’s Glen Dimplex All-Ireland Intermediate final, Galway, without any of the players who were part of that success, suffered a third defeat in the Very Ireland Division 2B, losing to Cork 3-9 to 2-15.
Gallant Galway minors suffer loss in minor camogie final
Galway minors suffering a disappointing 2-8 to 2-4 loss to Cork in the Tesco Ireland Minor A All Ireland final on Saturday in Semple Stadium.
‘Connemaras’ struggled to survive on the mid-west plains of Minnesota
The 309 Connemara emigrants, selected by their local clergy as suitable for a new life in America, arrived at Boston June 14 1880, 11 days after departure from Galway Bay on the SS Austrian, an Allen Line ship. The settling of ‘The Connemaras’, as they became known, was a new venture prompted by a Liverpool priest, Fr Patrick Nugent renowned for his ‘philantropic and truly patriotic exertions to alleviate the social conditions of his fellow countrymen in England’; and Archbishop John Ireland, of St Paul, Minnesota, who was already settling thousands of Irish Catholics who were trapped in the ghettoes of New York and elsewhere, on rich prairie lands.
