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Clifden student Martha Lilly O’Callaghan is preparing to leave for The Philippines on a four-week ethical volunteer programme with Irish charity, SERVE. Martha will leave in July after completing three months of pre-departure training. Martha will travel with ten others to work with the Badjao community in Cebu.

The stylish winner of the ‘Best Dressed Lady’ on Ladies Day of the Galway Races was today announced as Maritess McCarthy from Douglas in Cork, who works as a Cardio-Thoracic Theatre Nurse in Cork University Hospital. Noted for her exquisite style Maritess has walked away with a cash bonanza of €10,000. 

One of the most extraordinary meetings in the aftermath of any war took place in May 2004 in Oranmore Castle, the home of the late Commander Bill King RN, and his family.

With a family musical legacy that stretches to the folk powerhouse that is De Danann, Cian Finn brings his ancestral roots to his fresh reggae sound that combines electronica with hip hop, dancehall with soul.

Galway’s own, Alannah Larkin, sets off this weekend to represent Ireland in the Miss Earth finals in the Philippines, facing off contestants from around the globe.

An estimated 8,500 people viewed the final profession of the newest member of the Poor Clares, Sr Clare Marie, whose ceremony was live streamed last weekend.

People Before Profit representative for Galway, Adrian Curran, has condemned what he has termed the “criminal failure by the State to ensure that the rights of undocumented workers in the fishing industry are upheld.

The funeral of Fr John McCormack, Parish Priest of Breaffy, Castlebar, will take place tomorrow, Saturday, March 28, at 12 noon in the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Roundfort, with burial afterwards in Roundfort Cemetery.

A Galway man, model, actor, and GAA player will take to the stage on August 23 in the Philippines at the Mr World competition and has been named as one of the favourites to claim the coveted title.

The centre cannot hold. We are almost a century from Yeats penning those words, and again the political and social climate of the continent - and the broader world - is in turmoil. "The best lack all conviction, while the worst//Are full of passionate intensity."