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Fashionistas get racing ready - the Salthill Hotel is all set to host a ‘Style and Dine’ luncheon event on Monday, July 25, to kick-start the 2016 Galway Races Summer Festival, all in aid of Enable Ireland.

Fashionistas, get racing ready, as the Salthill Hotel hosts a Style and Dine Luncheon on Monday July 25 to kick-start the 2015 Galway Races Summer Festival, all in aid of Enable Ireland.

The third MADRA Dogathon takes place this Sunday (May 15) along the Salthill Promenade at 1pm. This fundraising dog walk is being organised to raise some much-needed funds for the Connemara-based dog rescue and adoption group MADRA.

Musician Sharon Shannon is calling on dog owners to sign up to take part in the MADRA Dogathon fundraising dog walk which will take place on Sunday May 15 from the Claddagh in Galway city at 1 pm.

If you enjoy walks on the Prom or days on the beach, No 74 Ocean Wave could be the special home you have been looking for. This four bedroom semi has been transformed into a spacious three bedroom home with many extras, including a new fitted kitchen, new conservatory, a remodelled master bedroom with en suite and walk-in wardrobe, and a new high tech, extremely efficient, electrical heating system.

For the second year running, Trad on the Prom will take to the stage in the Hodson Bay Hotel.

After a record-breaking 2013 at the Hodson Bay Hotel, Athlone 2014 has a fantastic kick-start with popular song and dance experience Trad on the Prom who will perform a dance spectacular on January 24 and 25.

The Prom has been much in the news in the last few days. In Victorian times, our ancestors used to advertise the Promenade as a place unrivalled in the country, where a person could take the healthy invigorating air like nowhere else. In those days, it was just a narrow crooked roadway, very rough and untarred, and it extended from Palmer’s Rock to Blackrock. There were no shelters or flower beds, indeed there was hardly any beach, just rocks and shingle and seaweed. The cleaning up process started when breakwaters and piers were built, so there is a lot more beach now than there was 60 years ago. There were no large boulders to strengthen the Promenade, and flooding from the tide was far more regular than it is today – with the experience of this past couple of weeks excepted.

ARE YOU going to the prom? That is not just a question American schoolgoers can ask, but Galwegians can as well.

Towards the end of the 19th century, tourism interests in Galway used to advertise the Promenade as a place unrivalled in the country, where one could take the healthy invigorating salt air like nowhere else. In those times, it was just a narrow crooked roadway, very rough and untarred, and the footpath seemed to extend from Palmer’s Rock to roughly opposite the entrance to Rockbarton, if one is to judge from how it finishes in the foreground of our photograph, which was taken c1890. The road was known as the Lower Sea Road. The houses in the background are Belmore, owned by McDonoughs; Brinkwater, owned by Maurice De Courcey Dodd; and Maretimo, owned by the O’Beirne family.