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Galway is preparing to be infested with adventure racers as the Rat Race returns. The team-based event will see the city transformed into an urban sports playground as racers are challenged to take part in a range of physical and mental activities including running, mountain biking, abseiling, climbing, and kayaking.

Salthill is set to celebrate the city’s vibrant literary scene as Galway’s many writers and poets - both published and aspiring - read at the Salthill Community Arts Festival.

Two leading doctors will address the sixth national convention of the Psoriasis Association of Ireland in the Galway Bay Hotel, Salthill, on Saturday, September 19 and the Psoriasis Association of Ireland is urging the estimated 2,400 sufferers from the county to attend the one-day event.

People can enjoy a family fun day in the city later this month and help raise vital funds for a major renovation project being spearheaded by the Poor Clare Sisters at their monastery at Nuns’ Island.

IN THE 1980s and early 1990s Salthill hosted free, live, rock concerts each summer and those days look set to return with the Free By The Sea event as part of the Salthill Community Arts Festival.

Galway city now has 110 taxi spaces, an increase of 39 spaces, following approval for new bye-laws from councillors this week. Some 43 new temporary taxi spaces have also been introduced.

Galway players impressed in this year’s Elvery’s Sports Connacht Junior Squash Open which was held in Galway Lawn Tennis Club last weekend.

Number 57 Dun na Carraige, Blackrock, can only be described as one of those special apartments that come to the market from time to time. Located on the seafront, this residence offers uninterrupted views overlooking Blackrock, Salthill Promenade, the Clare hills, and the surrounding coastline.

During the reign of Edward VI, when the Puritans controlled Galway, it was provided that “No man should keep an Ale House without being licensed, under penalty of three days imprisonment and a fine of twenty shillings”. It was added: “But because many Ale House keepers in those days were not able to pay that Forfeiture, and it was seldom levied by reasons of poverty, which made people unwilling to prevent the offenders.” Therefore a further punishment was added by statute during the reign of Charles I which not only inflicted the forfeiture of 20 shillings to the use of the poor, to be levied by the constable or church warden, by warrant of a justice before whom the offence was proved, and which distress may be sold three days afterwards; but it provided that if no distress could be taken, the justice should deliver the offender to the constable to be whipped. For the second offence, the offender was to be committed to the House of Correction for a month. A married woman who kept an ale house without licence made her husband liable for punishment.

126 Lower Salthill