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Caoga bliain ó shin i 1976, eagraíodh Oireachtas na Gaeilge i gCois Fharraige den chéad uair. Cuireadh tús le himeachtaí, Dé hAoine, 27ú Lúnasa agus bhí imeachtaí ar bun chuile lá den tseachtain idir sin agus nuair a cuireadh clabhsúr leis an bhféile le ceolchoirm agus céilí sa bPoitín Stil, Dé Sathairn, 4ú Meán Fómhair.

The final round of group games in the Galway Senior Football Championship arrives with plenty still to be decided across all four groups.

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.

The six points Galway have already accumulated in Division One of this year’s National Football League would have been enough to guarantee safety in seven of the last nine seasons played under this format. The reason it’s not eight from ten is the Covid-impacted 2021 campaign, when the divisions were split into North and South sections.

Despite managing just a single win from four National League outings, there is still a glass-half-full case to be made for the early season form of the Galway men’s flagship football and hurling teams.

A five-point defeat to your fiercest rivals will always sting, but last Saturday night in Thurles is unlikely to leave any lasting scars.

Goalfilled drama and the vivid clash of maroon and green-and-red are usually reserved for balmy summer afternoons, not dreary Sunday afternoons in January. Yet football supporters at Pearse Stadium were treated to a classic as Mayo edged Galway in a pulsating Allianz Football League Division One opener, a contest not decided until the final frantic moments.

Leaping silkily from the sea, a pair of dolphins pause mid-air to nod at the seven-strong crew of the MV Saoirse na Farraige, as she steams past Mutton Island, after departing Galway Harbour last Friday, April 4.

Researchers at University of Galway are working with indigenous peoples deep in the Colombian Amazon to document their story -building on the legacy of Roger Casement.

To be the best, you have to beat the best, but having to play two of the top four teams in the country in the run up to a final is a boost for the team's resilience, according to Galway manager Daniel Moynihan.