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The first unit of the Order of Malta in Galway began in 1937 when Dr Conor O’Malley was asked by the Marquis McSweeney, the then chancellor of the Irish Association, to recruit members to form an ambulance corps aimed initially at Connacht only.

In the bleak midwinter snow and frost last Saturday afternoon, the remaining residents of Loughloe House and their families enjoyed Christmas music and festivities in the dining room of the nursing home.

Syd Shine - renowned bandleader of the Crescent Ballroom from the 1930s onwards, will celebrate his 90th birthday, and will meet his friends from former days, on Sunday July 25 at 4.30pm in the Shamrock Lodge Hotel, Athlone.

Some of Ireland’s leading entertainers are warming up to sing the songs of The Beatles, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, Elvis, Neil Diamond, and other legends of the music world in a charity show for GOAL’s work in Haiti at the Shamrock Lodge Hotel, Athlone on Easter Monday, April 5.

PATRICK MORAN grew up in Templetuohy, Co Tipperary, where he still lives. In poem after poem in his new collection Green (Salmon Poetry) he brings absolutely to life the vanished world of small town and rural Ireland.

A Westmeath man in his 60s has been convicted of assaulting his brother in a long-running dispute over land.

The Western Branch of the Coeliac Society of Ireland is holding an autumn information evening on Thursday November 5 at 7.30pm, in Arts Millennium Building, NUI Galway.