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Foróige Galway is hosting a table quiz in Monroe’s Tavern on Wednesday February 13 at 8pm, to raise funds for the Alan Kerins Africa Projects.

Many great men have sported moustaches - Albert Einstein, Friedrich Engels, Ghandi, Salvador Dalí, Freddie Mercury, Friedrich Nietzsche - and Galwaymen have a chance to join their ranks this month.

“Since I don’t smoke, I decided to grow a moustache - it is better for the health,” so said the Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí, and next month Galwaymen can grow a moustache for health reasons too.

“We must seek to build together an active, inclusive citizenship; based on participation, equality, respect for all, and the flowering of creativity in all its forms. A confident people is our hope, a people at ease with itself, a people that grasps the deep meaning of the proverb; Ní neart go cur le chéile’ - our strength lies in our common weal - our social solidarity.”

Alan Kerins Projects is pleased to announce that a novel charity match will take place in Croke Park on Thursday October 27 at 3.30pm. The match will see the old rivalry ignited between Dublin and Galway in what promises to be a fun filled occasion. Some of Ireland’s greatest sporting heroes have signed up for the event and they include; Padraic Joyce, Bernard Dunne, Ray Houghton, Jason Sherlock, Katie Taylor, Darragh O Se, Pat Spillane, Mikey Sheehy, Seamus Moynihan, Hector, Gary Gillespie, Ken Doherty, Mick Galway and Tony Ward.

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Since Sunday evening the FAI have been criss crossing the county as the festival of football, which culminates with Saturday’s FAI AGM in Mayo, got into gear. On Wednesday evening, they stopped off at Pat Quigley Park in Ballyheane to open the new astro-turf facility and the Mayo Advertiser, caught up with FAI Cheif executive John Delaney and former Irish international Ray Houghton to get their views on their week in Mayo.

Digital viewers in the city got a new sports news and betting channel last week, just in time for the Premiership.

The week-long dizzying festival of football that embraced every corner of Mayo last week came to an end on Saturday afternoon, with the FAI AGM in Breaffy House Resort. The festival of football which was promised by the FAI when they first announced that Mayo would host the AGM was duly delivered upon and from Sunday to Saturday Mayo got football fever. From Killala to Partry and Ballina to Westport, the people of Mayo came out in their thousands to meet and greet the top brass of the FAI, including Ireland senior manager Giovanni Trapattoni whose “walkabout” in Westport was one of the highlights of the week.