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“One day I walked through the garden gate, and I never left” says Catherine in Ballinfoile Mór Community Garden. This is a what members throughout Galway city say about their community gardens in all sorts of ways. At this time of the year, you can feel growth in the air along with the sense of belonging and purpose which being a member of a garden brings.

Community gardens throughout Galway city have been busy over the last few months clearing, planning and starting the planting out of seedlings and seeds for what it is hoped will be another bumper year of produce.

Did you know that in Galway you can get your bike fixed AND help your community? You can also dump your mattress, learn to walk a tightrope, rent a community space, even listen to the radio while at the same time help your community, the environment and disadvantaged groups in Galway.

Did you know that in Galway you can get your bike fixed AND help your community? You can also dump your mattress, learn to walk a tightrope, rent a community space, even listen to the radio while at the same time help your community, the environment and disadvantaged groups in Galway.

A number of Community Gardens in Galway City have set about putting a smile on the face of older members of our communities by creating colourful window boxes filled with wondrous flowers grown across their diverse network of locations.

In 1962, the Sisters of Jesus and Mary decided to set up a special class in their national school, Scoil Íde, in Árd na Mara. This class was known as ‘secondary tops’ and was designed to move the girls into secondary level. On September 1, 1965, the nuns opened a new secondary school in a house named ‘Salerno’ on Revagh Road, Rockbarton. They had 65 pupils. The school grew in popularity, the population increased, and there was no room for expansion, so the nuns found a new site on Threadneedle Road and moved into a brand new building there in 1981.