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The winner of the Maree Oranmore FC Win a Home in Oranmore competition was announced live on Friday July 21 at the Galway Bay Golf Resort in Renville, Oranmore with independent auditor Des O'Brien of DHKN overseeing the action. It was also live streamed to more than 10,000 online viewers. The competition lines closed for ticket sales at 5.30pm on Friday June 21 and finished with a staggering 16,061 total tickets in the draw, making it the most successful win a home draw to take place in the island of Ireland.

The fifth hosting of the Buccaneers RFC business networking lunch in the Sheraton Hotel Athlone proved to be a popular occasion with representatives from the business, commercial, financial and sporting environs in attendance.

The National Dairy Council (NDC) and Agri Aware yesterday (Wednesday) celebrated La Fheile Bainne on World School Milk Day with the Walsh family on their dairy farm in Oranmore.

It might not have had as much on the line as their meeting in the Mayo GAA Senior Football Championship semi-final last year, but Castlebar Mitchels and Westport gave the culminating game of the Mayo GAA Senior Football League the ending the competition deserved last Saturday evening in Hastings Insurance MacHale Park.

Three Galway astro-photographers have been chosen for the next stage of the prestigious ‘Reach for the Stars’ astrophotography competition.

Maelíosa Stafford did not really have a chance, he was destined for a life in theatre, drama was in his blood, acting in his DNA. His first time on stage was in a Taibhdhearc production his mother was acting in … he was still in his mother’s womb. Both of his parents, Seán and Máire, had made an enormous contribution to the arts scene in Galway and especially to theatre in the west, in various guises as actors, directors, translators of plays into Irish, writers of pantomimes, costume designers, librettists, and drama teachers.

The late Hubert Butler once wrote a delightful essay called Influenza on Aran in which he examined the evidence for the early Irish saints. His title is explained in the first few sentences: “When I arrived in Aran by the Naomh Eanna at Kilronan I was sneezing, and by the time I had raced to St Enda’s Church at Killeany and seen the stone on which he had floated in from Connemara I was feverish and coughing.

Galway Science and Technology Festival broke all previous attendance records on Sunday for the much-anticipated return of the Festival Exhibition, hosted by the University of Galway and spread right throughout the campus.

In many cases, ancient folklore linked holy wells with a god, a goddess, a mythical creature, or a serpent; they were places of pagan worship which were at odds with Christianity. Ever since medieval times, efforts have been made to stop well-worshipping and to Christianise them. Many townlands have a water source that has been marked out for special devotion, most of them being allied to a particular saint. These are usually sanctuaries within the landscape, threshold sites that enable us to step back from the hullabaloo of daily existence and allow us to access something grander and otherworldly, something infinite and unknown.