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A book at bedtime

It’s that time of the year when books are springing up all over the place, looking to catch some of the Christmas market. I missed the launch by Hugh Fitzgerald Ryan in Kyteler’s Inn of his novel, ‘The Devil To Pay.’

Galway LGBT group Amach! is striving to build a society of inclusiveness

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Galway has changed considerably since the eighties and early nineties when Nuala Ward, the chair of new Galway lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) group Amach! says she and her colleagues were met with indifference, fear and a lack of understanding.

Chinese and Irish businessmen to address Midlands Conference

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Business leaders will converge on Athlone this month for a conference exploring business opportunities in China. The conference will be addressed by leading figures from business in Ireland and China.

Enda Walsh - from the Odyssey to Penelope

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HOMER’S ODYSSEY has proved an unending source of inspiration to countless artists down the ages since it was first composed, sometime around the 8th century BC.

Galway businessmen have to outline plans to Commercial Court tomorrow

Two Galway businessmen are being pursued by Zurich Bank for more than €16 million under personal guarantees over loans made to a construction company.

For King and Country

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It’s very hard to describe a true Irishman, without acknowledging that we all share a complicated inheritance. At no time was that complication more powerfully amplified than in the crisis of identity leading up to and during War World I. On the one side is the unionist image of Irish Protestants loyally, and exclusively, rallying to the Union Jack, and sealing that union with their blood; while on the other side, the Catholic and nationalist men and women, the people of the 1916 Rising, who represent the ‘true’ Ireland, in sharp contrast to the misguided Irishmen slaughtered in France on the altar of British imperialism.

Hospitality at the crossroads

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If a crossroad is a watershed indicating a choice to be made, then Claremorris is the crossroad of the west of Ireland.

Eyrecourt-born publican dies on Colorado mountain

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A Galway-born publican has died while scaling a mountain in his adopted home of Colorado.

O'Gara in court on business audit charges

One of the region’s best-known businessmen, Noel O’Gara from Ballinahown, was in the District Court in Athlone again this week (November 18) to face a number of charges relating to his alleged audit of a company or companies whilst disqualified from doing so.

Dragon flys

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By its very nature the 35,000 mile Volvo Ocean Race that started from Alicante on Saturday attracts the hardiest of sailors. They are usually men with tough teak muscles and a hell of a lot of fortitude, capable of withstanding the roughest of seas in temperatures that can range from -5 to 50 Celcius.

 

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