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Two hundred years ago, in October 1826, the Warden of Galway wrote to the Superior of the Patrician Brothers asking him to send at least one Brother to Galway to take over a school which had been moved from near the Shambles Barracks to a disused barrack in Lombard Street. Brother Paul O’Connor and Brother Dawson were sent to Galway. Cash in hand was one shilling. Social conditions were very bad, but the Brothers went ahead and established the Monastery School, known as The Mon. Before the school had been a year in operation, the improvement in the youth of the city was so evident that a public meeting was held in the school to vote thanks to the teachers, “whose zeal, attention and excellent arrangements had produced such happy results”.

The Ros Muc Area Genealogy and DNA group is hosting the sixth annual Connemara Gathering next week as part of Heritage Week.

The Tenth Annual International Gathering of the Mannion Clan is scheduled to take place in the Clan’s ancestral village of Menlough in East Galway on the weekend of Friday to Sunday August 11-13, at the beginning of National Heritage Week 2023.

The Ninth Annual International Gathering of the Mannion Clan is scheduled to take place in the clan’s ancestral village of Menlough in East Galway on the weekend of Friday August 12 to Sunday August 14, as National Heritage Week 2022 gets under way.

Another successful Galway International Rally was celebrated at the weekend, with the top three entrants finishing within seconds of each other.

Conditions were perfect for the return of the Mayo Stages Rally to Achill Island. After the success of last year’s event, clerk of the course Trevor O’Connell and his team rose to the occasion to make an every bigger and more spectacular event.

Sport and tourism integrate this weekend as a new season of the Triton Showers National Rally Championship gets under way on Sunday next with the Óstán Oileán Acla/Connacht Print and Signs Mayo Rally.

Mayo and District Motorsport Club was out in force as members took to tarmac at The Galway International Rally and to gravel at the Qatar International Rally last weekend.