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The Galway minor camogie team enjoyed a winning start to the Electric Ireland Minor A Championship on Sunday when they overcame Waterford in Duggan Park by 3-10 to 2-6, and next up is a home game against Kilkenny on Sunday.

When I arranged to meet traditional music legend Frankie Gavin in a quiet corner of the Galmont this week, I didn’t know what to expect. I’d heard he had been seriously ill, had lost a significant portion of his body weight and that wonderful hair, but when he came around the corner, wrapped in a grey tweet coat and scarf, he was the same Frankie I’d ever known. Buzzing with energy and life, a head full of hair and keen to sit down for coffee and croissants to share the story of the last year during which he feared for his mortality.

With a mammoth 67 games already played in this year’s Brooks Group Galway Senior Hurling Championship, two double headers this weekend will provide the final four teams.

The portents are looking good for Galway footballers after the minors won their first All Ireland crown in fifteen years.

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In recognition of World Stroke Day, Croí, the heart and stroke charity, will host a special free webinar on Thursday, October 28 from 7pm to 8pm using Zoom. Register now at www.croi.ie/webinar, or call Croí on (091) 544310.

Kinvara’s Dr Karen Weekes is a woman with a mission — for 70 days starting at the end of this year, she will row alone across 3,000 miles of the Atlantic Ocean, a feat that no Irishwoman has previously achieved.

A newfound ability to react positively to events in a game stood to Galway’s credit when Cork scored the crucial goal late in Sunday’s All Ireland Senior Camogie final, captain Sarah Dervan revealed in the aftermath of the county’s fourth senior title.

A newfound ability to react positively to events in a game stood to Galway’s credit when Cork scored that crucial goal late on in Sunday’s All Ireland Senior Camogie Final, captain Sarah Dervan revealed in the aftermath of the county’s fourth senior title this evening.

AUGUST 22 2021 will mark the 99th anniversary of Béal na Bláth and the death of one of the most significant figures in modern Irish history - Michael Collins.