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Galway-based Centripetal, the global leader in intelligence powered cybersecurity, this week announced that it is expanding its offering to include CleanINTERNET® DNS to preemptively safeguard businesses against web-based cyber threats.

Galway United Women brought the curtain down on their pre-season campaign with a creditable draw against Wexford in Maree last Saturday evening.

His grouchy demeanour, deadpan delivery, absurdist irony, rapid-fire wit, and idiosyncratic approach to country music, will be seen and heard across a variety of shows at this month’s Galway Comedy Festival.

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THE SINGING cowboy of comedy, the inspiration for The Simpsons Moe Szyslak, and a Galway favourite, Rich Hall is coming to the 2021 Galway Comedy Festival.

Monuments in Galway city and Tuam, which honour people who were directly involved in the slave trade or who fought to maintain slavery, should be removed.

A 200-year-old promise was fulfilled in Mervue yesterday Wednesday as the final resting place of freed slave and champion bare-knuckle boxer Tom Molineaux was commemorated with a headstone, unveiled by undisputed world boxing champion Katie Taylor.

On September 14, 1944 a United States Navy PB4Y-1 Liberator Bomber crashed into the Atlantic Ocean close to Ballyconneely in Connemara.

Shortly after dawn on Saturday, September 16 1944, Michael Conneely, a bachelor of 55 years, was asleep in his cottage at Ailleabreach, Ballyconneely, when loud banging on his door woke him. He shouted ‘who’s there?’ The storm of the previous two days had abated but he couldn’t make out what the voice said. Grabbing a pitchfork, he slowly opened to door. Outside were two men, wet to the skin, in deep distress. Michael put the pitchfork to the throat of the first man: “Who are you?”