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Senior officials and elected members from Galway City and County Councils and Galway Chamber of Commerce met at The Galmont Hotel yesterday (Wednesday) morning to discuss opportunities for leveraging government support for key strategic priorities for Galway and the wider North-Western Region.

A special meeting of local politicians, officials and business representatives from Galway met this week to collaborate on the delivery of infrastructure projects across the county.

The final act to be announced for the Big Top at this summer’s Galway International Arts Festival will be fronted by Stewart Copeland, founder of English rockers the Police.

On January 15, 1827 two Patrician Brothers, Paul O’Connor and James Walsh, took up residence in Lombard Street and set up the Monastery School. The attendance on that first day was 300 boys, many of whom had little interest in learning because they were poor and hungry. So the Brothers set up The Poor Boy’s Breakfast Institute in May 1830. It continued seven days a week, 365 days a year for many years after the founders' time. The breakfast consisted of porridge with molasses or treacle, and during the Famine, they fed 1,000 boys every day. The ‘Old Mon’ became a vital cog in education in Galway.

By Sarah Gaughran

It will be another big day for Kilkerrin-Clonberne on Saturday when the ladies take on Donoghmoyne in the currentaccount.ie All-Ireland Senior Ladies Football Championship in Croke Park.

College and Vancouver Community College, all based in Western Canada.

On Tuesday, world-renowned composer and conductor Eímear Noone was awarded an honorary doctorate by NUI Galway. The award-winning artist has created scores for 26 film and video game titles. She was conferred a Doctor of Music honoris causa at the university’s summer conferring.

Almost two out of three female executives in Galway believe the level of gender equality in Galway is positive, but that more progress is needed.

The founder of the Galway Advertiser; the first female conductor at the Academy Awards; and the west of Ireland man who spearheaded the global Covid-19 response are all among 14 individuals who will be conferred with Honorary Degrees by NUI Galway in 2021.