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The Patrician Brothers, at the invitation of the last Catholic Warden of Galway, arrived in Galway in 1826 and a month later they opened St Patrick’s Monastery and School on Market Street. They initially had 200 pupils but this figure rapidly grew so that during the Famine, there were more than 1,000 boys being educated, fed, and many of them clothed there every day. The school was a major success but there were no educational facilities for older boys in the ‘lower orders’ in Galway so Bishop McEvilly invited the Patrician Brothers to set up a secondary school.

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Galway have booked their place in the knockout stages of the Glen Dimplex Senior Camogie Championship, having maintained their unbeaten record with a comfortable 3-23 to 0-6 win over Down in a blustery Kenny Park in Athenry on Saturday.

This weekend marks the highlight of Captain Thomas O’Connor’s golfing year when he hosts his Captain’s weekend at Athlone Golf Club.

Athlone Golf Club’s first Open Week of the year finished on Bank Holiday Monday with a very popular Scramble competition.

A dominant second half display ensured the Cill Óige U13 footballers achieved success in this Division 2 league final played on the vast green swathe of Fr O’Growney Park in Rosemount on Sunday evening.

As Open Week progresses at Athlone Golf Club, large numbers of playing members and visitors continue to grace the pristinely prepared fairways and greens on the shores of Lough Ree.

Last Saturday, May 21, was the 158th anniversary of the opening of the Presbyterian Church on Lower Charles Street, Castlebar. Henry Todd of the firm Todd, Burns and Co of Henry Street Dublin laid the foundation stone on 31 July 1863. He performed a similar service at Roscommon earlier that day. Todd was a generous patron of the Presbyterian Church.

On a wet and windy night off the coast of Mayo, the big Search and Rescue 116, Sikorsky S92 helicopter, was preparing to land at Blacksod lighthouse to refuel. It was Monday evening March 13 2017.

The home dressing room in Adrian Freeman Park in Tooreen, where we sat down with Mayo manager Derek Walsh last Sunday, is somewhere he might not have been that welcome during his playing days, when he was going toe-to-toe with the Blue Devils for Ballyhaunis in the many classics they battled out in the club championship in Mayo.