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O’Donnellan & Joyce is the leading new homes agent in Galway and has finalised the sale of seven housing estates in the city and county with some 185 new homes and apartments sold in 2021. The demand for new and BER ‘A’ rated houses are at their highest levels, with first time buyers benefiting from the help to buy scheme and the lack of supply of second hand homes. The ability to work from home has seen a large number of people and families relocate to Galway city and county which seems to be a popular trend due to the easier pace of life that Galway has to offer.

Oughterard residents lined the streets of the village on Friday to bid farewell to a well-loved local who was at the heart of the GAA.

Lenaboy is the name of one of the townlands of Salthill. It derives either from the Irish Léana Buí, the yellow fields/land or Léana Báite, the sunken or drowned land. The latter explanation is the most likely as we look at this photograph of “The Cinema Site” taken from the main road at Kingshill in Salthill. It was so-called locally because James Stewart & Co tried to build a cinema there in the 1940s. Unfortunately, because of the boggy nature of the ground, the pylons they were sinking in order to put in a foundation kept sinking and disappearing and so the project was abandoned. In the 1960s an enormous amount of filling was gradually put into the site, and eventually, John King built a block of apartments there.

Former Taoiseach, Enda Kenny TD turned the sod on the development of a new state of the art Interventional Cardiology Suite at Bon Secours Hospital Galway on November 10 last year. Exactly one year to the day, Deputy Enda Kenny returned to the hospital to officially open the new unit.

The All-Ireland Minor Gaelic Football Championship for under-18 boys was introduced in the late 1920s by the GAA, the first champions were Clare in 1929.

When I played with the Corofin seniors from 1989 until 2004, we had a fairly good team, with Michael and Aidan Donnellan, Martin McNamara, Trevor Burke, Eddie Steede, Gerry Burke and Derek Reilly as good as any club player in the country.