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The team at Galway auctioneers O’Donnellan & Joyce have been busy with viewings and preparations for their live remote bidding property auction. Set for Friday November 3, proceedings will commence at 12 noon sharp. Final open viewings took place this week in the lead up to Friday’s auction, with a range of properties for sale in counties Galway, Clare, Donegal, Limerick, Mayo, Dublin, Louth, Meath, Cork and Westmeath.

The countdown is on for the highly anticipated O’Donnellan & Joyce live stream auction, happening on November 3 at 12 noon. Brace yourself for an excellent auction catalogue that promises something special for everyone.

A group of German travel journalists has been exploring Galway city and Connemara, as guests of Tourism Ireland and Fáilte Ireland. They were here to experience our outdoor and adventure activities and, in turn, to showcase these and some of the many things to see and do in Galway and inspire their German readers and listeners to come and follow in their footsteps.

Clifden was not the only town to experience the terror of British forces running wild, shooting, and setting fire to buildings. The previous year, July 19 1920, Tuam suffered a similar experience as Clifden, only mercifully no resident was killed on that occasion.

Just before 6am on St Patrick's Day 1921, Monsignor McAlpine, the Catholic parish priest of Clifden, Co Galway, was woken by loud banging on his door. “For God's sake, Canon, come down - the town is ablaze.”

The murderous and vengeful events that followed 'Bloody Sunday' 1920 impacted on the town of Clifden in an unexpected way. There was shooting and murder on its streets; and, following a rampage by the Black and Tans, practically half the town was burnt down.

O’Donnellan & Joyce Auctioneers is preparing to sell some 40 properties in its upcoming live stream property auction which takes place on Friday July 23 at 12 noon.

O’Donnellan & Joyce Auctioneers is preparing to sell some 40 properties in its upcoming live stream property auction which is set to take place on Friday July 23 at 12 noon.

Whether it was to defuse the call for Home Rule, or whether Chief Secretary Arthur J Balfour was genuinely moved at the shameful poverty that existed among the western counties of Ireland, his ‘walkabout’ among the people was generally very well received.

Once the Galway-Clifden railway route was agreed, pressure came from the chief secretary’s office for the Midland Great Western Railway to commence work immediately, and that ‘every able bodied man in Connemara’ was to be offered a job building the railway.