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In a week when the next president of the USA appointed an official to oversee an expulsion of undocumented migrants, Galway City councillors were celebrating the life of a man who dedicated his to regularising illegal immigrants in America.

Communities in Galway and Mayo have paid tribute to talented artist Cathy Hughes, who passed away following a tragic incident at Old Head Beach, near Louisburgh, Co Mayo on Sunday, July 21.

Shane Lynam (Moate LEA) and Catrina O’Donohoe (Athlone LEA), will contest the local elections on Friday, June 7, for the Irish Freedom party.

The Galway senior hurlers will have five weeks without a competitive fixture ahead of their Leinster championship opener against Carlow in late April. They failed to defeat a dogged Limerick side in their final group game in Pearse Stadium.

Blunt was an aristocratic English writer, a person of remarkable ability who, as “the best looking man in England was credited with having refreshed the blood of several ancient families”. He was always against colonialism and sympathetic to small nations, so it was no surprise that he became an ardent supporter of Home Rule for Ireland. In 1887, he was in Ireland to study the grievances of the people when he heard that evictions had recommenced on the 56,000-acre estate of Lord Clanricarde in Woodford.

‘Westward Ho! Let us rise with the sun, and be off to the land of the west - to the lakes and streams - the grassy glens and fern-clad gorges - the bluff hills and rugged mountains - now cloud-capped, then revealed in azure, or bronzed by evening’s tints, as the light of day sinks into the bold swell of the Atlantic….’

An archaeological find alluding to the possible remains of the town’s 17th century defence walls has been unearthed as Westmeath County Council and the Office of Public Works progress the Athlone Flood Alleviation Scheme on The Strand at the River Shannon.

When I was quite young, before I had started school, I had a brief conversation with an older woman, the memory of which has remained with me ever since. She was a teacher of some sort, and the incident took place in what must have been a playschool, though as this was perhaps 60 years ago, when such things were hardly known, I cannot be sure.

National pride was most evident this past weekend as the local community united in full support of the five day Croi na hÉireann Festival which culminated in a well attended St Patrick’s Day parade on Sunday afternoon.

Gregory stayed at the Algonquin Hotel, on 44th Street, a few blocks from the Maxine Elliott Theatre where JM Synge’s play The Playboy of the Western World, opened on Monday November 27 1911. This was the Abbey Theatre’s first tour of America, and it was much anticipated. But its opening night was brought to a standstill by riotous and disruptive behaviour by a yahoo Irish element, who objected to its depiction of Irish womanhood. The play continued only after the police dragged off the worst offenders to jail.