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Congratulations to first year student Oisin Flynn and his younger brother Tom Og for winning a bursary to exhibit their computer coding project Autistically Awesome at this year's Coolest Projects at DCU.

Anyone even remotely interested in rugby will have been swept up in the magnificence of Ireland’s World Cup journey thus far. Andy Farrell’s side have dismantled their group in imperious fashion, overturning the current world champions in a Test match thriller, before cutting through Scotland in relentless swathes of green. This is impressive enough, without taking into account that Ireland is currently on a 17-match unbeaten run.

Anyone even remotely interested in rugby will have been swept up in the magnificence of Ireland’s World Cup journey thus far. Andy Farrell’s side have dismantled their group in imperious fashion, overturning the current world champions in a Test match thriller, before cutting through Scotland in relentless swathes of green. This is impressive enough, without taking into account that Ireland is currently on a 17-match unbeaten run.

By the end of January 1923 the Irish Free State had executed 34 anti-Treaty republican prisoners. To put this figure into context, the British authorities executed 24 Irish prisoners between November 1920 and June 1921 during the War of Independence. The fledgling Irish Free State was determined to put-down the rebellion by a small but deadly anti-Treaty force, led with fierce determination, by Liam Lynch.

Monivea native Monsignor James J. Loughnane Protonotary Apostolic, Vicar Forane & pastor of St. Denis in Diamond Bar, passed away at the age of 81 at St. Jude Hospital in Fullerton on Monday evening the 17th of September following complications post emergency surgery.

"EXCEPT FOR the point, the still point, there would be no dance and there is only the dance." This line, from TS Eliot's Four Quartets, is the inspiration behind a new exhibition in Kinvara.

The Galway Archaeological & Historical Society AGM takes place in the Harbour Hotel on Monday, 9th January, 2017, and will be preceded by a Lecture, commencing at 8.00 p.m. to be given by Peadar O’Dowd entitled, “1916 and the Fight for Independence – Impact on a Galway Family”. The family involved is the former Crowe family of Bohermore, in which Martin, Julia and William were active during the Fight for Independence, while their father, John, escaped death from English naval shelling during the 1916 Galway rebellion. Martin was subsequently interred in Ballykinlar Internment Camp in County Down during 1921, and his story is contained in Vol. 48 (1996) of the society’s journal.

This photograph was taken in 1900 of the staff of Robert MacDonald, the plumber from Dominick Street. The business was started by his father, Peter MacDonald (late manager for Ross and Murray), who advertised himself in 1887 as “Plumber, Brassfounder and Gasfitter”.

Parke Arts and Drama Group will present The Country Boy by Charlestown born John Murphy in Parke Community Hall on April 1 and 2 at 8.30pm.

Éamon Ó Cuiv TD has had his first tentative piece of literary writing published in the current The Galway Review (volume 4). It is a competent piece of writing, and no one would have expected anything less, from the young Lochinvar who rides out of the west to astounding political victories every time. He wrote a review of Daniel Sammon’s Croagh Patrick and Me, Ireland’s holy mountain, which he can probably see from his kitchen window.