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A landmark operation, the first of its type worldwide, spearheaded by Professor Sharif Sultan, a renowned master of vascular and endovascular surgery at the Galway Clinic has revolutionised the management of renal artery interventions and aneurysms.

Traditional music band, Shaskeen, has been a cornerstone of Irish Traditional music and song for over half a century and show no signs of slowing down, ahead of their appearance in the Town Hall Theatre as part of Advertiser Events, we look back through various publications that have covered the group's long history.

Showband sensation and dubbed the ‘man with the golden trumpet’, Johnny Carroll, will perform at a A Night of Music for Galway Hospice in aid of the Galway Hospice in the Galway Cathedral on Thursday, November 10.

The virtual Tree of Lights celebration at Galway Hospice takes place online this Sunday at 5pm.

The Virtual Tree of Lights Celebration for Galway Hospice takes place online on Sunday 6th December at 5pm.

Galway writer Tom Gilmore, who is fast building a reputation as the biographer of top music stars has added another to his literary stable with his new book King of the Swingers, the official biography of the great Paddy Cole.

LEO MORAN of The Saw Doctors, singer-songwriter Marc Roberts, along with Tom Joyce and Carmel and Enda Dempsey will present a special show to raise funds for Galway Hospice.

In 1978, RTE was on strike for some time which meant the repair shop in O’Connor TV had nothing to do, so John O’Sullivan and friends built a 30-watt transmitter and this prompted Tom O’Connor, John O’Sullivan, and Eamonn Geary to get together and set up a pirate radio station called Independent Radio Galway. Their studio was in an attic in the courtyard behind Cahill’s shop in William Street, and when this space became too small, they moved to a larger room over Garavans, where Johnny Waldron’s Joke Shop is today. The 199 metre aerial ran from the top of Glynns to the top of Gleesons. Their furniture consisted of two tables, a few chairs, the home-made transmitter, two turntables, and a few minor pieces of equipment.

Thousands of fans thronged to Castleblayney at the weekend to see a bronze statue of Big Tom unveiled by President Michael D. Higgins and the launch of the official biography titled Big Tom – The King of Irish Country by Galway author and broadcaster Tom Gilmore from Bodane, Tuam.