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A fundraiser being held in the city at the weekend aims to raise money for a nutrition clinic in Zambia, South Africa.

Having got him there, Clifden was not going to let Daniel O’Connell go easily. The meeting, on the edge of the town had been an unparalleled success, and the excitement prevailed. The organisers had constructed a huge pavilion ‘on the highest point of the town’, covered with canvass. It must have been of considerable size as 300 men sat at long tables, while 200 ladies sat in the adjoining galleries. At 8pm that Sunday evening, September 17 1843, O’Connell and other guests entered the pavilion with one of the Galway Temperance bands preceding him with lively tunes. His arrival was greeted with the ‘ most deafening cheers’, while the ladies waved scarves and handkerchiefs.

SO COW, the brilliant indie pop-rock trio led by Tuam singer-songwriter Brian Kelly, take to the stage of Strange Brew at the Róisín Dubh next week.

A Galway man has been jailed for five years at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin for possessing explosives and a gun.

A 24-year-old Corrandulla man was ordered to pay €2,000 in compensation to the man he headbutted when his way to the smoking section of a busy city centre nightclub during Race Week was blocked by the crowd.

A man charged with drug dealing offences as well as the alleged importing of cocaine is to be sent forward for trial.

A Corofin man caught red handed delivering a kilo of cannabis herb valued at €12,000 was sentenced to 18 months in jail at Galway Circuit Criminal Court this week.

In the early years of the 20th century the Irish language increasingly was associated with poverty and backwardness. In the national school system, which was established in 1831, children had been beaten with what became known as a ‘tally stick’ if they were caught speaking Irish. Apparently every time a child was heard speaking Irish, a notch was cut on the stick, and the poor child received the same number of blows.

A chance meeting for one half of the celebrity ‘Cheeky Girls’ twins who flew into Ireland West Airport Knock recently has resulted in a new love affair.

I’ve a great auld grá for Tuam. It was there I cut my teeth in the manic world of wordmaking. A proud town, with great characters and great music and great poetry, it was forever getting a lash. If there was a lash to be had, Tuam would be first in line. It lost its sugar factory, its railway. Major industry was never comfortable there; its historic football stadium was allowed to rot while a shiny new one was built in an awkward location in the city, and politically, it was always an afterthought rather than a focal point.