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When it comes time to build Stephen Walsh’s statue on the Dyke Road, the pose might well be based on the sensational bicycle kick he scored last Friday in Eamonn Deacy Park.

They save the Irish State a reported €20 billion per anum, but spend their days constantly having to fight for recognition for their work. Despite living in the third 'wealthiest' country in the world, the life of a carer within the home in Ireland is one of financial and career insecurity, loneliness and anxiety.

The tragic deaths of three teenagers in an accident at Menlo Pier last weekend has left “a city numbed speechless,” the priest celebrating the first of the funeral Masses said yesterday (Wednesday), when hundreds of mourners gathered to bid farewell to 16-year-old John Keenan Sammon.

There will be Government presence in Athlone on Friday morning (December 9) when Minister of State for Public Health, Wellbeing and National Drugs Strategy, Deputy Frank Feighan, visits St Kieran’s Community Centre in Tormey Villas to launch Sláintecare Healthy Communities Westmeath.

Former Athlone Town goalkeeper, Anthony 'Jelly' Keenan was honoured at the recently hosted Shay 'Muscles' O'Brien tournament, during which a veritable feast of underage football graced the vast green swathe in Gainstown, the home of Mullingar Athletic.

It may be a cliché but the old adage that the happiest days of our lives were the ones we spent at school would be true for most people. When we were in school, we probably thought that it was all lies, but later we gradually realised it was true. Life changes with time but memories of our school days remain the same all the time, days of laughter, smiles, great friendships, games in the school yard, no worries of bills, taxes or finances, desks with flip-tops and inkwells in the middle, heavy school bags, the glantóir, headline copies, the poems we learned, the sheer joy of the last day before the holidays, the imaginative excuses for being late … “The two wheels fell off me bicycle, sir”.

On the 1651 map of Galway, Bohermore is shown as running from The Green (Eyre Square) to the present Cemetery Cross where the ‘Old Gallows’ was located. There was also a gallows ‘where justice is executed’ near the Green. To the left and right of Bohermore, the land was known as St Bridget’s Hill and the region around Prospect Hill was known as Knocknaganach (Cnoc na Gaineamh), the Sandy Hill.

Brendan O’Connor’s Galway United U19s secured a valuable 4-2 away win over UCD on Sunday.

Following a first defeat of the season, Galway United U17s will be eager to respond away to Cavan-Monaghan on Saturday afternoon.

A promising Galway United U19 outfit face a tough test away to St Patrick’s Athletic in Dublin on Sunday.