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Each year, the arrival of the Galway International Arts Festival programme feels less like a publication drop and more like a seasonal shift. Before a single ticket is bought, before a stage is lit, there it is in your hands — weighty, ink-rich, quietly electric. That physical programme, dense with possibility, signals something deeper than scheduling: it tells the brain, almost instinctively, that summer has arrived in Galway.

The banks were always a key part of the development and growth of towns and villages across the country. In my home town, we had three banks. The Bank of Ireland (where my dad was the porter for a quarter of a century; the Munster and Leinster Bank (later AIB), and the Ulster Bank. All three were housed in fine solid buildings from a different age. Buildings that marked their importance in the town.