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People across Connacht are putting their positive intentions into action according to research commissioned by Re-turn.

In Séamus King’s remarkable book The History of Hurling, there is a reference to hurling being played as far back as 1,200 BC in Tara, Co Meath. The earliest written references to the sport in the Brehon Laws date from the fifth century. It was played in ancient times by teams representing villages, involving hundreds of players, and the match might last several hours, even days.

O'Donnellan & Joyce Auctioneers achieved total sales of €6.445 million following a highly successful live stream property auction on Thursday, June 25, with 11 properties sold during the auction.

Galway United will bounce into their game with Bohs tomorrow night after their performance of the season last Saturday in The Showgrounds.

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Apprentices from Galway took to the stage at the WorldSkills Ireland Heroes Showcase at the RDS Dublin.

Records of organised race meetings in County Galway go back to the mid-13th century when what were known as ‘horse matches’ were run under the King’s Plate Articles. In 1764, there was a five-day race meeting at Knockbarron near Loughrea. The first race day at Ballybrit was on August 17th, 1869 when contemporary records show that some 40,000 people turned up to watch the sport. The racecourse, measuring one and a half miles, was laid out by a civil engineer, a Mr. T. Waters and was described as “Covered with herbage or moss and excelling any course in Ireland for good going”.

A multidisciplinary team of students primarily from colleges in the west has won the Irish leg of Invent for the Planet (IFTP) 2025 for their plastic brick prototype solution titled “Creating sustainable housing solutions for expanding poverty areas”.