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On January 1 1984, President Patrick Hillery officially launched the Quincentennial, a year long celebration of 500 years of civic independence unique in western Europe. In 1484, a number of Galwegian merchants persuaded King Richard III to grant the city a charter which made the town a mayoral city. In the same year Pope Innocent VIII granted them the power to nominate their own warden and priests.

Last September I wrote a number of Diary entries on the wonderful reception that Galway extended to the survivors of the SS Athenia, torpedoed off the Donegal coast on September 3 1939, the very first day of the war. The ship was sunk by Fritz Julius Lemp, the commander of the U-30. The Athenia was obviously a passenger boat on its way with refugees from Europe to Canada. This wasn’t the start to the war that the German government wanted. Initially it denied that any of its submarines sank the Athenia, and suggested that it was sunk by the British on orders from Winston Churchill in the hope of getting America into the war.

GALWAY ACTRESS Maria Anastacia Keogh will be heading to the Czech capital Prague, for work on the Irish/Czech feature film The Doubleganger.

Community Radio Castlebar made history this week when it became the first community radio station to broadcast live from the Communications Unit of the Houses of the Oireachtas on Kildare Street in Dublin.

Community Radio Castlebar made history this week when it became the first community radio station to broadcast live from the Communications Unit of the Houses of the Oireachtas on Kildare Street in Dublin.