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It was heartbreak for Tommy Larkins as Loughrea's experience told as they sealed a historic third successive senior hurling championship crown.

The housing crisis persists, and homelessness is up in Galway and nationally. Tens of thousands of uncounted, hidden homeless - couch surfers and over-occupied households - remain precipitously close to sleeping rough. As autumn winds strip leaves from trees, the tented shanty towns at the edges of the city’s parks and wastelands hove into view. To gain an insight, the Galway Advertiser slept rough last week, tagging along with the Simon Community’s industrious fundraisers, service users, SimonSoc university group and a chilly mayor of Galway sleeping outside for her very first time.

In the late 18th century, a ‘new town’ — Newtownsmyth — was built outside the town wall on the northern side. The project was undertaken by the governors of the Erasmsus Smith estate. In this suburb, a county courthouse was erected in 1815 and a town courthouse in 1824. In 1823, there were objections suggesting that there were several suitable sites ‘immediately in town’ and that it was ‘quite idle’ to lay foundations in the suburb of Newtownsmyth.

Galway-based literary magazine Ragaire will launch its third edition tomorrow, Friday, May 30, in The Porter Shed, on Market Street, at 6.30pm.

Leaping silkily from the sea, a pair of dolphins pause mid-air to nod at the seven-strong crew of the MV Saoirse na Farraige, as she steams past Mutton Island, after departing Galway Harbour last Friday, April 4.

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Al Porter is moving onto a new phase in his life. As his friends get married and parents enter retirement, he plans on bringing his comedy into a new phase too.

The final weekend of the Galway International Arts Festival at Monroe’s Live promises to be an exciting one with Teddy Thompson, Gruff Rhys, George Murphy and The Rising Sons and Tara Howley performing from today, Thursday, July 25, to this Sunday, July 28.

Porter will perform at the Róisín Dubh tomorrow, Friday July 12, at 8pm.

Singer-songwriter Teddy Thompson will perform at Monroe’s Live on Thursday, July 25, at 8pm as part of the Galway International Arts Festival.