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Women’s rugby first started 63 years ago in 1962, by a team at Edinburgh University. Since then, women’s rugby has gained significant popularity. Women’s rugby in Ireland started in 1992. At this time, there were only about 10 women’s teams across the country, and they played their first match against Scotland.

By Una Sinnott

Being a visitor destination means not only does Westport get to capitalise on tourism to keep the local economy turning, but also, just by virtue of having so many different people coming all the time, you always have the chance to discover new minds and meet interesting folk - which helps grow your own world - without even leaving the spot!

One of the reasons for the success of Mr Tuke’s Fund, which sponsored emigrants to America and Canada in the 1880s, was that as far as possible Tuke personally interviewed those wishing to go. He insisted that only families with at least one member capable of hard, physical work could participate. Proper clothes and money were provided to start their new life, and arrangements made in advance where they would stay and find work.

IN THE bleak midwinter of the Covid pandemic and another lockdown, there is a bright point of light - Music for Galway’s annual midwinter festival, the first major event of any year on Galway’s cultural calendar, is going ahead.

The case of Blake v Wilkins in 1817 was so eagerly anticipated that every lodging house in Galway, ‘even the humblest in the town was' was filled to overflowing.

French-Canadian folk super group, De Temps Antan, will perform at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Wednesday May 8 at 8pm as part of a Music Network tour.

French-Canadian folk super group, De Temps Antan, will perform at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Wednesday May 8 at 8pm as part of a Music Network tour.

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