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The Galway City Museum will reopen its doors to the public on Tuesday July 21 at 10am.

On March 8, 1848, work was started on the Eglinton Canal. The Harbour Commissioners had been anxious to develop the New Dock. There were about 300 boats in the Claddagh and the amount of seaweed landed for manure in the spring of 1845 was 5,000 boat loads, averaging three tons each. The seaweed factory had been moved up to ‘The Iodine’, so the work on the canal was vital. It would allow boats to go from the Claddagh Basin up to the lake, boats from Cong and Maam to get to the sea, and improve the mill-power on the Galway River.

No 6 Lakewood Park is an excellent three bed detached home situated in the quiet cul-de-sac just off the Dyke Road in Galway city.

The owners of the Corrib Great Southern site are currently waiting on the finalisation of development plans ahead of its planning permission submission to Galway City Council. In a statement to the Galway Advertiser issued at dawn on Wednesday, they said that they hope to develop residential units and some retail units, but that this will require a Material Contravention that will have to be passed by councillors.

This photograph of the Galway-Clifden railway bridge over the river was taken from the west side, looking towards Bohermore. It was built in 1894 and consisted of three spans of 150 feet with a 21 feet span in the centre. This centre one was a lifting one on the bascule principle to allow for navigation of boats and steamers from the sea and canal to the lake.

The fire which broke out at the derelict Corrib Great Southern Hotel on Monday must put pressure on the owners of the "unsightly building" to demolish it, otherwise the owners are simply showing further "scant regard" for the wellbeing of residents living close-by.

The local economy received a boost this week with the opening of a new Corrib Oil Ltd. Texaco service station and food court on the Ballymahon Road in Athlone. The store which opened on Friday last is a welcome addition to the local business community with the creation of twenty jobs.

Being offered to the market by private treaty, No 6 Lakewood Park is an excellent three bed detached home situated in the quiet cul-de-sac just off the Dyke Road in Galway city.

OVER THE Rainbow, a dance show inspired by the much loved classic 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz, will be staged in the Town Hall Theatre by the Corrib Dance Academy.