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Two venues in Galway are among five nationally which will share in a total of €1 million in funding aimed at developing gala dinner venues as part of an effort to grow the country’s main business events hubs.

Ray O’Donnell, cathedral organist and director of the concert series, says large screens will allow the audience to watch organists at work, conveying all the action from the gallery to the pews below.

In the early years of the 16th century, Stephen Lynch fitz Dominick was returning from an extended trading voyage in Spain. He set out with a full cargo, probably of hides, wool, and fish, which he hoped to trade for wine and iron with Spanish merchants. As he approached Galway port he was surprised to see a church and buildings almost completed on Fort Hill (originally called St Augustine’s Hill), a prominent site visible from both the town and the sea. They were not there when he left.