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What should Galway look like bvy the year 2050? What kind of city do we want to be living in by then? These are key questions in the Galway Chamber’s Vision 2050 consultation process.

The thematic for this year’s iteration of the festival will be related to 'Alternative Futures'. AATE will invite audiences to reflect on propositions/ opportunities for change and intervention in a world of uncertainty.

BY Declan Varley

A SCOTTISH architect’s life and work, a Scottish building, a Scottish documentary maker, and a Scottish composer will come together at a concert in Galway.

In 1990 – exactly 100 years after Sir William Gregory granted a 99-year lease on a section of land at Kiltartan Cross on which to build a schoolhouse – the Kiltartan Gregory Cultural Society was founded. Its aim was to restore the derelict red-brick schoolhouse, the very one commissioned by Sir William Gregory, and to preserve the history of Kiltartan for future generations. The next six years were spent doing just that.

Local Green Party Councillor, Louise Heavin, will host an online public meeting, entitled 'Athlone: Our Vision for Our Town' on Wednesday, July 28 at 8pm.

The Willows,

Westport Tourism Organisation (WTO) has announced the publication of its latest book report: Westport – Where Visitors Feel at Home – documenting the findings of a survey of attitudes/opinions of visitors (domestic and international) to Westport and tourism operators/accommodation providers in the host community, conducted by WTO during 2019.

DNG Maxwell Heaslip & Leonard presents to the market this most impressive property set on a majestic site of c1.8 acres of gardens that offer breathtaking views of Ballyconneely and its stunning surrounds. Located at Derrigimlagh, this outstanding residence is situated directly across from the renowned Coral Beach, with its white sands and turquoise waters. It is a unique part of the world which offers wonderful vistas regardless of the season, something only achieved in Connemara.

Even among the supreme leaders of Soviet Russia in the 1920s there was fear. When Clare Sheridan, the sculptor who spent her latter years in Galway, was leaving the Moscow War Ministry late one night accompanied by the powerful head of the Red Army and Commissar for Military Affairs, Leon Trotsky, armed soldiers on the bridge at the Neva, stood out on the road, and stopped their car.