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The Galway senior hurlers will be hoping for better visibility in Duggan Park on Sunday when they take on Laois in round three of the Walsh Cup after farcical scenes brought a premature end to their opening competitive game of 2024 last Sunday.

The invitation to Westmeath walkers is clear and simple whether you’re a seasoned rambler or just like to stretch your legs and enjoy the view, then the organisers of the annual Carlow Autumn Walking Festival had your varied abilities in mind when they planned the 2023 programme for this very popular festival.

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In the summer of 1831, famine returned to County Mayo, and the starving took to the roads in search of food. Travellers on the roads witnessed and recorded many desperate people in the fields feeding on mustard, cress, and other herbage. Convoys of horses and carts carrying food also plied the roads, and it was not long before the starving turned their attention to them. The carts had meal and flour imported through Westport, destined for markets, big houses, and famine relief depots. The authorities responded by assigning armed escorts, but hunger had disarmed people of their fear of armed soldiers and constables.

Moycullen handball club is on the crest of a wave. It is a little over a month since Martin Mulkerrins triumphantly returned home from Minneapolis as the World champion in the 40x20 court, the first Galway man and only the third Irish man to crowned World Number One.

‘Follow me up to Carlow’ may be an old marching tune associated with times past, but the title is very apt today as it is the call being issued by Carlow Tourism to walkers of all standards as it announces details of the Summer Walking Festival 2023.

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.

On 20 January 1923, six months into the civil war, four anti-treaty IRA Volunteers from Galway – Martin J. Burke (25), Hubert Collins (23), Stephen Joyce (29), and Michael Walsh (26) – were executed at Athlone Barracks, having been found guilty by a Free State Military Court of the unlawful possession of arms and ammunition.

Calling the eventual winners of the Mayo GAA Intermediate Football Championship is a fool's errand most years and this year is no different.