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Kathleen B Curran, who began working for the Galway Harbour Board after she left school, would rise spectacularly through the ranks to become the combined Harbour Master and secretary to the Port Authority (an unheard of position for a woman in Ireland). She was intimately involved in all of the major events which the harbour witnessed during the latter part of the last century. But I am sure she took particular pleasure, as an Irish language enthusiast and a great admirer of the poet WB Yeats, when Galway was picked out to play a role in the great poet’s funeral.

Suresh Joachim, a familiar member of the Guinness Book of World Records Hall of Fame, chose to sprint across Athlone’s Greenway last week as part of his 20th year of breaking world records celebration.

Despite the loss of its creative director this week, the company behind Galway 2020 remain unfazed by the departure and fresh claims that the project is in crisis.

On Sunday, May 27, Post 9, Irish United Nations Veterans Association (IUNVA), honoured the 94 Irishmen from the Defence Forces, An Garda Siochana and civilians who died while serving on UN peacekeeping missions across the world.

'Business Champions' is a new initiative recently established in Athlone.

Last month Galway Diary explored the sham legend that grew around the so-called ‘Empty frame’ on the wall of the Lynch’s Chapel, or Lady’s chapel, in the historic St Nicholas’ Collegiate church. The late Canon George Quinn pronounced that this was the very frame in which the Bishop of Clonfert, Walter Lynch’s sacred icon of the Madonna and Child once hung, before he was forced to flee just before the arrival of Cromwell’s soldiers in April 1652.

Galway and Irish sailing is mourning the loss of two giants of the sport.

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Irish National Teacher’s Organisation, the commemoration book Kindling the Flame by Niamh Puirséil was presented to Mayor of Athlone, Aengus O’Rourke, by the oranisation’s Athlone/Moate branch at its May meeting.

The contract for a 33-unit housing development at Arcadia was signed yesterday (Wednesday) at Athlone Civic Centre.

Get your bikes out because the Galway Bike Festival will take place from Saturday June 9 to Sunday June 17. The event which is funded by the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport was officially launched in City Hall this week by the Mayor of the City of Galway, Cllr Pearce Flannery, and Cathaoirleach of the County of Galway Cllr Eileen Mannion.