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Clockworks' ticking timebomb to success

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“The advice might seem obvious: do the thing you talk about you want to do, that is the key,” says James McGregor, singer, songwriter, guitarist and thinker of four-piece rock and rollers The Clockworks.

Local family raise funds to rebuild homes for relatives in Gaza

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A Galway-Palestinian family are set to undergo an ambitious 400km walking / running challenge to raise funds to help rebuild the lives and homes for their relatives in Gaza.

Embrace the Spirit of Christmas at Galway Cathedral’s live Crib event from next week

Galway Cathedral is delighted to announce the return of its much anticipated Live Crib on Thursday next December 14, inviting visitors from 11:30am to 4:00 pm to immerse themselves in the true spirit of the Christmas season.

A tradition of excellence in education at Coláiste Iognáid

Located on Sea Road close to Galway city centre, Coláiste Iognáid is a coeducational secondary school with a long history of holistic education in the city.

Scoil Íde, seventy years a-growing

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On this day 70 years ago, June 1 1953, Scoil Íde opened for the first time. In 1952, the Sisters of Jesus and Mary purchased Allen’s Hotel on Dalysfort Road which had been run by John and Angela Allen. It had at one time been known as Daly’s Fort House, a high-class hotel run by a Mrs Galbraith. She sold it to a Mr Miller of Persse’s Distillers who used it as a private house and he sold it on to the Allens. Many will remember it as the place where Bruce Woodcock, the English Heavyweight champion, trained for his famous fight with Máirtín Thornton.

Film would be good discussion movie for TY students

An interesting film out last week with a pretty great title 'How To A Blow Up A Pipeline'. The film is based on and takes its name from a book by Andreas Malm, a non fiction manifesto and call to arms on taking the fight to the fossil fuel industry.

­Through the glass darkly

The late Hubert Butler once wrote a delightful essay called Influenza on Aran in which he examined the evidence for the early Irish saints. His title is explained in the first few sentences: “When I arrived in Aran by the Naomh Eanna at Kilronan I was sneezing, and by the time I had raced to St Enda’s Church at Killeany and seen the stone on which he had floated in from Connemara I was feverish and coughing.

Galway minister uses frankincense to ‘scent’ a message about looming famine in Horn of Africa

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A Galway church leader is raising awareness of the hunger crisis raging in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya by hanging a bag of frankincense on her Christmas tree this festive season.

Award winning Athlone Musical Society formally announce Chess cast

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Following a successful night of auditions, Athlone Musical Society have announced their cast for the forthcoming production of the popular musical CHESS, with former ‘You’re a Star’ winner Lucia Evans set to grace the stage as Florence.

Younger than the Cathedral

Give or take a few weeks, I'm the same age as Galway Cathedral. Both of us have aged gracefully, one a bit greyer than the other. To be fair, the Cathedral looks like it has a few years on me, as all such buildings should.

 

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