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Athenry’s Dunsandle Castle will have some very special guests staying this winter. Santa and Mrs Claus, along with the elves will be making the County Galway medieval castle their home in preparation for Christmas. Bookings have now opened, and a proportion of all admissions will go to Galway Simon Community.

The Heart of Galway were crowned All Ireland Senior Interfirms Football champions for the first time with a narrow one-point victory over a gallant Intel side in Ballyforan.

Here is your opportunity to own a wonderful property on Inis Mór, Aran Islands. Situated approximately half a mile from Kilronan village and the airstrip, this is a wonderful three bedroom property with amazing uninterrupted views of the ocean and surrounding countryside.

Almost half of the water supply for Galway city and county is unaccounted for, according to a report released yesterday.

In 1966 Galway were fortunate to get out of Connacht by beating Mayo. To an extent they were also lucky in a hard fought semi-final against Cork. They eventually won what was regarded as the best game of football seen in years, by a score of 1-11 to 1-9. And so they were into their fourth All-Ireland final in a row and going for three wins in a row and the question was, would this team reverse the three losses in a row that Galway suffered at the hands of Kerry 1940, Kerry 1941, and Dublin in 1942? Meath still stood between them and Sam.

The Galway SHC final, due to take place this weekend between Portumna and Loughrea has been postponed. It remains uncertain whether Mullagh will bring an appeal to a higher authority about their dramatic semi-final loss to Loughrea.

Leitir Móir made very hard work of defeating a limited Cloone side in the Connacht semi-final at Pearse Stadium last weekend.

When people think of the Portumna hurling captain, they almost automatically associate that honour with Ollie Canning.

Unsurprisingly the last chapter in this year’s controversial Galway Senior Hurling Championship promises to be lively.

A public meeting will be held in St Mary’s Community Centre in Mountbellew next Monday night, November 23 at 9pm. The meeting is called to discuss the already announced proposed closure of the Franciscan Agriculture College, Mountbellew.