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O’Donnellan & Joyce auctioneers is offering for sale this immaculate upper floor apartment situated in the heart of Galway City.

Towards the end of the 19th century, the Claddagh started to go into decline, thanks mainly to the local fishermen not updating their methods of fishing. This economic decline continued into the last century so, when the Urban District Council announced in 1916 that they were starting a reclamation programme of the 30-acre field that was known locally as ‘The Swamp’, it caused a lot of excitement locally. A small working committee was established to carry out the details of organisation. From then on the area was to be known as South Park. I am not sure where that title came from, maybe they regarded the Square as East Park, Salthill Park as Westpark, but where was North Park?

For 70 years, since 1954, the Galway International Oyster & Seafood Festival has celebrated a timeless, unchanging Irish tradition and treasure, and the ongoing pleasure given by our native oysters.

Officials in Galway City Council are powerless to remove the hulks of rotting boats in the Claddagh as the ownership of some quays in the Corrib estuary is unknown.

John McDonagh, Labour Party candidate for the Galway City Central Ward, is demanding to know who is responsible for removing derelict boats abandoned along the approaches to Nimmo’s Pier.

Emergency services responded to four separate riverside incidents in Galway’s busy city centre last weekend.

Natives. Flats. Native flats. Ostrea edulis – whatever you call our native oysters they are as much a part of the food fabric and history of Ireland as our butter. Fatty yet not fatty. Nutty without any nuts. A hint of citrus without any fruit. And that unequalled lingering sweet iodine flavour. There is nothing quite like the Irish native oyster.

Natives. Flats. Native flats. Ostrea edulis – whatever you call our native oysters - are as much a part of Ireland’s food fabric and history as our butter. Fatty yet not fatty. Nutty without any nuts. A hint of citrus without any fruit. And that unequalled lingering sweet iodine flavour. There is nothing quite like the Irish native oyster.

Natives. Flats. Native flats. Ostrea edulis – whatever you call our native oysters - are as much a part of Ireland’s food fabric and history as our butter. Fatty yet not fatty. Nutty without any nuts. A hint of citrus without any fruit. And that unequalled lingering sweet iodine flavour. There is nothing quite like the Irish native oyster.