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There is a prize for the best costume.

The Hurler: A Campion’s Tale will be shown a An Taibhdhearc, on Saturday, October 26, as part of the 2024 Galway Comedy Festival. This special screening of a homegrown comedy hit will be followed by a question and answer session with the film’s writer, director and star, Tony Kelly, and special guests.

Galway United Women host Athlone Town in their first home game of the Avenir Sports All-Island Cup in Eamonn Deacy Park on Saturday (5pm).

As part of Operation Tara, Gardaí attached to the Galway Divisional Drugs unit preformed a search of a residential property in Corrandulla on the evening of Friday, June 16, resulting in the arrest of a man in his 20’s.

Q: I’m thinking seriously about returning to my old career. I’ve been doing something else for the last 20 years and I miss what I did previously. It’s time to go back to the future, I feel. What do I need to look out for? (IK, email).

O'Donnellan & Joyce auctioneers is offering to market via private treaty an excellent three bed semidetached home in the popular Gort Greine development.

Private James Barry was posted as a sentry at the barrack gate in Castlebar on the night of 13 May 1830. When darkness descended, he tied a long handkerchief to the trigger of his musket. He then tied the other end to the gate bolt, put the muzzle to his chest and stepped backwards. The shot passed through his heart and exited through his spine. The inquest found Barry suffered from temporary insanity occasioned by 'fatal love'.

Nine teenagers from across Co Galway and Co Clare are to be celebrated this Sunday at the Coole Music Gala Concert 2023, for their great achievements in earning their ‘music for life’ badge.

There is not one of you reading this article this morning who has avoided the impact of suicide in Ireland. Right across the country, there are empty chairs at kitchen tables; there are bedrooms left preserved and unoccupied; there are football boots and hurls and rolled up club jerseys, reminders of camaraderies lost; there are siblings and parents left decimated, stunned into surviving life, walking around in a daze, never forgetting the pain that sits at the pits of their stomach. They exist and meet the sympathetic eyes of those who try to share their obvious agony.

To celebrate 10 years in Galway City, a number of teachers at the College are setting out to run the Connemara Marathon/Half-Marathon this Sunday April 23. The proceeds of their run, which people can contribute to on Gofundme/ Merlin College 10th Anniversary Run, are in aid of raising money to develop an all-weather running track at Doughiska Park.