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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”.

Claregalway Castle welcomes all to the annual Galway Garden Festival on Saturday and Sunday, July 5 and 6, from 11 to 6pm.

But now, perhaps two thousand years later, Galvia – as she is known in Latin, is set to return; seven feet high in shimmering bronze, but due to a few unforeseeable project delays, she is running a bit late...

Leaping silkily from the sea, a pair of dolphins pause mid-air to nod at the seven-strong crew of the MV Saoirse na Farraige, as she steams past Mutton Island, after departing Galway Harbour last Friday, April 4.

The clever marketing team at Ireland West Airport have always made a virtue of their uniqueness. The ten minutes it takes to get from your from car to departures makes it a welcome facility in an age when getting through an airport can be laborious.

A leading urban planner who gained notoriety last year when he described Galway city as looking “like mouth full of broken teeth” has returned, and his dental diagnosis is not good.

Half of the 27 candidates who have declared for the Midlands-North-West European Parliament constituency set out their stalls at two similar events this week with very different outcomes.

As an island nation, we have been building houses by the water for thousands of years, between dramatic cliffs off our coasts, to tranquil lakes in the middle of the country and to the banks of the rivers all around us. ‘Tithe Cois Uisce’ is an 8-part series that follows on from the popular “Tithe Cois Farraige’ series. Each week Síle Nic Chonaonaigh will visit a different location to meet those who have built houses by the water. With a different theme in each episode, between big and small, old and new, ordinary and extraordinary.

One does not have to dig very deep into the archives to find evidence of wholescale corruption, pervasive nepotism, and general theft of public monies by public representatives and officials in nineteenth-century Mayo.