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People are invited to celebrate the life of a deceased loved one by taking part in the Galway Hospice’s eighth annual Galway Memorial Walk.

Sherry FitzGerald is offering to the market a wonderful two storey duplex style residence with large west facing balcony in Dun na Carraige, Salthill.

GALWAY JAZZ fans can look forward to a new series of jazz concerts at the Salthill Hotel every Thursday over the coming weeks.

Galway City Mayor, Cllr Terry O’Flahery, will today, June 20, unveil a commemorative seat in honour of Lawrence Craughwell at Blackrock in Salthill at 2.30pm.

Family activities are at the heart of the inaugural Galway Sea Festival taking place over the June Bank Holiday weekend (Friday May 30- Monday June 3).

Towards the end of the 19th century, tourism interests in Galway used to advertise the Promenade as a place unrivalled in the country, where one could take the healthy invigorating salt air like nowhere else. In those times, it was just a narrow crooked roadway, very rough and untarred, and the footpath seemed to extend from Palmer’s Rock to roughly opposite the entrance to Rockbarton, if one is to judge from how it finishes in the foreground of our photograph, which was taken c1890. The road was known as the Lower Sea Road. The houses in the background are Belmore, owned by McDonoughs; Brinkwater, owned by Maurice De Courcey Dodd; and Maretimo, owned by the O’Beirne family.

Galwegians First XV face a difficult assignment on Saturday when they host first division outfit St Mary’s in the Bateman Cup (2.30pm).

THE INIMITABLE Des Keogh makes a welcome return to the Town Hall Theatre next week with his much-feted one-man staging of John B Keane’s The Love Hungry Farmer.

THE INIMITABLE Des Keogh makes a welcome return to the Town Hall Theatre next week with his much-feted one-man staging of John B Keane’s The Love Hungry Farmer.

Parts of Galway city may be at risk from flooding between today and Monday due to the expected high spring tides, the Galway City Council has warned.