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Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, James Lawless TD, alongside Minister of State with responsibility for Further Education, Apprenticeship, Construction and Climate Skills, Marian Harkin TD,this week announced a new and exciting Business and Operations apprenticeship for the public and private sectors.

It was about this time of year, September 1910 that construction work started on the new diocesan college, St Mary’s. Our photograph shows the blessing of the school on August 26 1912, Monsignor Fahey preaching. The first students entered two days later. There were 17 day boys paying £6 per annum and 60 boarders who paid £30 per annum.

by Brian Mooney

Southern Gaels 1-26

After much planning and preparations by a diligent and hard working committee, Southern Gaels will celebrate a milestone moment with a hurling festival week in recognition of the club’s founding in 1973.

The Design and Crafts Council Ireland (DCCI) has launched its second Made Local campaign.

Since we last spoke, we have all been living through this never-never land of coronavirus.

I wonder who were the more satisfied people last weekend: was it the Irish rugby team after their win in Japan, or Anna May McHugh and the organisers of the National Ploughing Championships?

I am going to talk with you all a bit this week about the whole Brexit business. Now, I am sure, like me, a lot of you have heard it going on all summer in bits and pieces, but it seems to be becoming serious now with Michel Barnier from the EU and David Davis from the UK having their serious talks together. But, as yet, no real outcome has emerged.

SHEILAH MORRIS (now Cangley) was born in Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) in 1928. Her father, who was born in Galway, had been recruited in London in 1920 to join the Veterinary Department of the Civil Service in Northern Rhodesia. He married a Galway girl, and they both moved to Mazabuka, where he worked at a veterinary research station. Now in her eighties and living in Australia, Sheilah recalls her childhood memories of Galway in the 1930s.