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Fergal Landy has been added to the list of candidates contesting the General Election in Galway East as an independent/non-party candidate. Fergal lives in Maree with his partner and three children. He has worked in public service with children, young people, families, individuals, and communities for over 20 years.

The Galway coast supports a wonderfully diverse and rare habitat which is in urgent need of protection. Our coastal habitats are in poor condition and are deteriorating and eroding at an increasing rate due to climate change and, in many areas, increased amenity pressure.

As you read this piece this August day,there is someone in this city or county who is awaiting the results of a breast cancer check; someone for whom the watched phone represents both a terror and a salvation. Awaiting that news is the norm for so many every week and every day for so many families. As any family who has been touched by breast cancer will know, the waiting, the diagnosis, the fear are all part of the process. There is the fear of the known and the unknown; the potential that plans carefully honed will have to be shelved. Or not.

Galway historian and author Jackie Ui Chionna has been shortlisted for the esteemed Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2024 award for her book Queen of Codes, on the extraordinary life of Emily Anderson.

Galway University Musical Society will perform a rock musical inspired by Green Day’s iconic 2004 album American Idiot as its headline show this season.

Despite inclement conditions proving prevalent, Athlone Boat Club boasted a large representation of women’s crews at the National Rowing Championships in Cork.

After Catholic Emancipation where for the first time Catholics won the right to be elected and to sit in the House Of Commons, the English government, led by an enlightened Robert Peel, believed it would be worth extending emancipation to third level education.

During the first 20 years of the 19th century Maria Edgeworth was the most successful and celebrated living novelist. With her friends Sir Culling Smith and his lady wife they had travelled from Edgeworthstown, Co Longford, to Galway, and from there they planned a leisurely holiday in Connemara.

Whizzkids summer camps has been operating since 2003 and over the last 20 years has garnered a great reputation for providing fun and educational camps.

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