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Two volunteer crew based at the Galway RNLI Lifeboat Station have recently taken up new roles as Launch Authority and Station Mechanic.

This year marks 20 years of the Frances Thornton Memorial Galway Bay Swim. Since the first crossing in 2004 with just three swimmers, the event has grown into one of Ireland’s largest and most loved open water challenges. On Saturday, July 19, some 160 swimmers took on the 13km stretch across Galway Bay in aid of Cancer Care West.

Last Friday was very busy for the volunteer crew of Clifden RNLI with two taskings in quick succession. Both of the incidents took place in the Killary Harbour area.

A collective of TV and movie makers across the west of Ireland is calling for a €10 million government investment to save up to 4,500 temporary and permanent jobs threatened by the end of a regional tax break.

Galway RNLI last weekend assisted a lone sailor who was in difficulty and unable to return to shore after the yacht’s mast broke in half.

The West of Ireland’s rugged and atmospheric beauty have made it an ideal location for film and TV production over the decades, but a development of the WRAP investment fund - via the new Commission - will show the region has more than just scenery to offer.

Frank McDonagh and Company were wholesale and retail drapers and outfitters that opened in Williamsgate Street in 1883. In early advertisements, they described themselves as “Successors to M. Hennessy, the house for original Claddagh cloaks as supplied to the Royal family”.

Organised water safety in Ireland really began in Milltown Malbay, Co Clare in the 1930s when a lady drowned there. This galvanised the local community into forming a Water Safety Association to help swimmers who got into trouble. The idea spread through Co Clare and eventually to the whole country. The national water safety section, set up by the government, was run by the Red Cross.

A fleet of 420 dinghies will take to north Galway Bay off An Spidéal for the Connacht sailing championships this weekend (June 24/25).