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Renowned auctioneer Colm O’Donnellan of O’Donnellan & Joyce auctioneers is due to take to the podium on Friday June 4 at his live stream property auction. The diverse catalogue of properties on offer on the day includes superb Galway city homes, commercial premises, and apartments along with a number of unique development opportunities. The full auction catalogue is available to view on www.odonnjoyce.com.

The first of the Irish summer property auctions is set to go ahead with Colm O’Donnellan of O’Donnellan & Joyce auctioneers taking to the podium on Friday June 4 with more than 40 lots promised to sell on the day. The diverse catalogue of properties on offer on the day ranges from superb Galway city homes, commercial premises, and apartments to Co Galway farms and farmlands. The full auction catalogue is available to view on www.odonnjoyce.com.

Galway’s two local authorities have been asked to brace themselves for busy weekends across the city and county by providing adequate litter and toilet facilities at popular recreation spots.

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The village of Roundstone has been named as Ireland's second prettiest village by travel magazine Condé Nast Traveller.

On a day in October 1936, a young woman, Maureen Canning, from Mohill, County Leitrim, left her digs in Lower Salthill and began to walk, for the first time, to what was then University College Galway.

IN HER day she was called “the greatest living Irishwoman” by no less than George Bernard Shaw, and six of the more than 40 plays written by that woman are to be performed by Druid Theatre Company throughout her native County Galway.

IT HAPPENED with Tom Murphy, it happened with JM Synge, it happened with Shakespeare. Now it is the turn of one of the major lights of the Irish Literary Revival - Lady Gregory - to get a Druid cycle.

I have often wondered how the unusual name of Zetland found its way to the head of Cashel Bay in the heart of Connemara. It is, of course, the name of a well known hotel today. The hotel was founded in the closing years of the 19th century, by the son of a mountain farmer, JJ O'Loughlin, who had a canny instinct for business. The hotel was originally called The Zetland Arms, and before that The Viceroy's Rest. All these names allude to the hotel's distinguished patron Lawrence Dundas, Viceroy or Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1889 to 1902, in which year he became the Marquis of Zetland.

Researchers at NUI Galway’s Ryan Institute and School of Natural Sciences have carried out a study aimed at identifying strains of seaweed which are good for aquaculture and agriculture in Ireland. The study discovered that sea lettuce, a fast growing seaweed with excellent nutritional value for animal feed and industrial uses, could return higher yields when the right strains are used. This seaweed is also responsible for green tides in Cork and Dublin.