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A 40 per cent cut in funding for the arts has meant that a local committee in Galway is having to go it alone to restore WB Yeats’ former home of Thoor Ballylee. The Yeats Thoor Ballylee Development committee will hold a fundraising evening at the tower this Sunday, May 31.

The property market in Oranmore was extremely buoyant in the second half of 2014 and a total of 77 residential properties were sold in the area. This was a sharp rise on the figure for the corresponding period in 2013 when there were 57 properties sold.

A 40 per cent cut in funding to the arts has meant that a local committee in Galway is going it alone to restore WB Yeats’s home in Gort. The Yeats Thoor Ballylee Society has launched a call for funds in Ireland and abroad to restore Thoor Ballylee, a fine 14th century tower owned by Yeats.

The efforts by a group of local people to have the famous Yeats' Tower (Thoor Ballylee), near Gort, south Galway, reopened is to be welcomed and supported.

John Mulholland and Keith Finnegan recently discussed the bookmaker’s odds for all the local election candidates across the city on Galway Bay FM.

THERE HAS of late been a dramatic growth in the number of self-published novels hitting the literary marketplace. It is not just about numbers of books published. Clever use of available technology can now ensure they look nearly as good as anything from Picador or Jonathan Cape.

Many homeowners are now opting to let rather than sell their properties due to the current conditions in the housing market, according to local auctioneer Yvonne Mullaney.

Ronan Rooney, managing director of Rooney auctioneers and chartered surveyors, has recently been appointed by the Law Society of Ireland to its panel of approved property arbitrators.

An Athlone auctioneer has queried the findings of a national report claiming which claimed Westmeath house prices have dropped by 26 per cent since their peak in 2007, saying the local property market is “over the worst of it”.

Yet another Kilkenny councillor has announced his plans to retire from local politics.