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Students of Calasanctius college are ‘Super Troupers’ taking on their latest musical production ‘Dancing Queen – A Tribute to Abba’ which goes on stage in their school hall from Wednesday Oct 25 to Friday October 27. ‘Dancing Queen’, ‘Take a chance on me’ and great favourites like ‘SOS’ will entertain the audience for the three shows.

Clifden was not the only town to experience the terror of British forces running wild, shooting, and setting fire to buildings. The previous year, July 19 1920, Tuam suffered a similar experience as Clifden, only mercifully no resident was killed on that occasion.

Week VI

On December 3 1920, at the height of the War of Independence, quite an extraordinary event happened in Galway County Council. It passed a resolution, known as ‘The Galway Resolution’, repudiating the authority of the newly established Dáil; it rescinded the resolution for the collection of rates, (which were collected locally, and passed on to Dáil Éireann, and not to the British authorities), and incredibly, Galway County Council now offered its offices to negotiate peace, directly with the British prime minister, David Lloyd George.