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Following a protest last week that ended in a standoff with Gardaí, the University of Galway’s Students’ Union says it is “imperative” the college issue a formal and public apology.

Following a protest last week that ended in a standoff with Gardaí, the University of Galway’s Students’ Union says it is “imperative” the college issue a formal and public apology.

Galway 3-25 Kilkenny 1-16

This game, the 1923 final, was not actually played until September 1924 when Galway faced Limerick in a ‘dour hour’s hurling’. “Physical strength, fitness and courage were the dominating factors.

Is it too early to be talking about a possible football and hurling double? Almost certainly. But where’s the fun in being sensible?

One of the most enduring of Galway institutions is this band, which has given much pleasure to its own members and countless thousands of the public since it was formed in Forster Street in 1896. The founders were Peter Rabbitt, a Forster Street publican, Michael Spelman, who worked in Moons and Paddy Walsh, the Station Master. It was originally a Fife and Drum band.

When Erica Herwood learned that her son, Keelan, had autism, she was thrown into a world she never imagined being in, she says.

A seven foot, bronze statue celebrating the mythical princess who drowned in the Corrib and gave her name to Galway, is languishing in a plywood crate, in a back yard, in Wicklow.

Galway's senior footballers travel to Páirc Seán MacDiarmada to take on Leitrim in the Connacht Senior Football Championship semi-final this Saturday.

With the Connacht championship now firmly on the horizon, attention inevitably turns to what Galway’s starting XV might look like. League football often raises as many questions as answers, and that certainly seems to be the case this year.