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Based on a play by Galway’s Martin Beanz Warde, The Dead House will premiere at Cork International Film Festival this Friday, November 13.

Safefood is inviting people to join the conversation about the food environment as part of an interactive “Appetite for Change” exhibition hosted at Ballinasloe Library from yesterday October 28 to November 4.

Údarás na Gaeltachta has welcomed Galway County Council’s decision to grant planning permission for a whiskey distillery, shop, café, tasting bar and heritage centre at Páirc Ghnó Charna, Roisín na Maithniach, Carna. Údarás had applied for planning permission for the facility on behalf of Drioglann Iarthar na Gaillimhe Teoranta.

Technological University of the Shannon (TUS) and the Gaelic Players Association (GPA) are delighted to announce details of the application process for six fully funded enhanced scholarships for GPA members, across the university’s Midwest and Midlands campuses for the 2023/2024 academic year.

Over 500 young people involved in Comhairle na nÓg, including members from Galway County and City, gathered at Croke Park recently to showcase and celebrate their wide range of achievements and be inspired by a host of speakers and entertainers.

The Irish Church Missions was the missionary wing of the Church of Ireland and England. They were a very rich organisation who felt it was imperative to convert Roman Catholics “from the errors of Popery”. Around the year 1850, they had two houses in Merchants Road and established a school in one of them (known as The Dover School) where a child might get an evening meal and a night’s lodging after attending a Bible class.

A two-day conference will take place at the University of Galway this weekend exploring the experience of Irish Travellers’ experience of the State from 1922 to 2022. The event, running as part of the Decade of Centenaries Programme, will also examine the impacts of that experience and the lessons to be learned from it.

Conradh na Gaeilge has encouraged Irish speakers to request census forms in Irish for Census 2022.

On Monday, Galway City Councillors once again have the opportunity to be world leaders in Active Travel and Climate Action by supporting a much longed for temporary Salthill Cycleway, as permanent plans for an urban greenway for Galway and flood defences are progressed.

Between the years 1845 and 1855 more than 2.1 million people emigrated from Ireland. They streamed into Liverpool, Manchester, Boston and New York. Many were diseased, hungry, dirty, broken spirited, with barely any personal belongings. Some embarked actually naked.