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Sports clubs across Galway are to receive a €15 million slice of the half billion euro sports funding pie announced by government ministers this week.

Count centres are like catnip for political reporters: we just can’t resist visiting them. And politicians – usually button-lipped around pol corrs – tend to want to chat about everything under the sun when ballots are being sorted, as the uniquely democratic adrenalin of fear and anticipation courses through their party-political veins.

Homeless people could not be offered temporary shelter as Storm Debi approached Galway due to local authority staffing shortages, the Galway Advertiser has learned.

Residents and visitors to Galway can now look out for a range of new, free Wi-Fi hotspots which have been rolled out in various public spaces across the city.

What is your idea of perfect happiness?

I remember leaving a polling station a few decades ago in my hometown and bumping into a friend who told me that he had just voted for the introduction of divorce on the basis that it would make “loads more wimmen available for the shift”. And boy, was he pleased with himself. Not really bothering to enlighten him to the fact that his vote would also free up more men to compete with his Lothario efforts, I let him off as happy as Larry, having voted for what was probably the most meaningful reason he had ever had.

GALWAY WRITER Charlie Adley will host another series of his popular Craft of Writing Course which returns to the Westside Community Centre, starting Thursday September 7.

The leaking roof on the Renmore Community Centre, which has been causing disruption to the use of the centre for locals and community groups, is to be replaced within the coming weeks.

A new and exciting form of physical activity that is good for heart health has been brought to Galway by Croi in association with the Football Association of Ireland (FAI).