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Galway will welcome senior European policymakers, business leaders, regional authorities, researchers and enterprise agencies this autumn as it hosts a flagship conference examining the future of regional competitiveness, innovation and sustainable economic growth across Europe.

A campaign calling for urgent road-safety measures on the R380 Gort Road into Loughrea will take its campaign to the public this weekend, with volunteers set to collect signatures in Loughrea on Saturday, September 26.

Something In The Water, Headford’s community arts festival, is returning for its fourth consecutive year, running from Wednesday, September 30th, to Sunday, October 4th. The five-day programme will bring music, theatre, literature, film, dance and visual art to venues in the North Galway town, including utilising vacant premises that will be reinvigorated for the festival.

Moyne Villa Football Club won the Circular Sports Champion category at the Full Circle Awards on September 17.

Culture Night is not just for latte sippers in town with notions, but also celebrates modern, rural Ireland - this year most noticeably in Ballinasloe with a unique rumble of machinery beating the background rhythms to agricultural life.

Creatives from Gort Arts will host their third annual member exhibition, opening this Saturday, September 19, in the Michael Kennedy Pottery Studio.

William Butler Yeats died in the Hotel Idéal Beauséjoue in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in France on the January 28, 1939 aged 73. His wife Georgie and himself had often discussed his death, and he told her, “If I die, bury me up there at Roquebrune and in a year’s time when the newspapers have forgotten me, dig me up and plant me in Sligo.” His funeral was a discreet and private affair. His body was later exhumed and removed to the ossuary. Because of the outbreak of the war, it was not possible to bring his coffin back to Ireland for several years.

An urgent appeal is being made to Galway County Council, local councillors, Galway’s TDs and senators, Fáilte Ireland and the Government to act immediately to secure 2.7 acres of strategically important land adjoining Dunguaire Castle before the opportunity is lost to private development.

An urgent appeal is being made to Galway County Council, local councillors, Galway’s TDs and senators, Fa?ilte Ireland and the Government to act immediately to secure 2.7 acres of strategically important land adjoining Dunguaire Castle before the opportunity is lost to private development.

Following the hugely successful launch of Phase 1 in Fearann na hEascrach in May this year, Phase 2 is set for release in early October. This attractive new residential development in Athenry aims to provide homebuyers with the opportunity to secure a high-quality, energy-efficient home in one of County Galway's most vibrant and fastest-growing towns.