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Adults, children, and public representatives cycled part of the route of the proposed Galway-Barna Greenway recently, to show their support for such a structure and to highlight issues of cyclists safety.

Actress Pauline McLynn will be honoured at the MADRA Paws on the Prom Dogathon taking place this weekend.

Television personality and veterinarian, Dr Pete Wedderburn – known at Pete the Vet – is calling on Galway dog lovers to support MADRA’s upcoming Paws on the Prom Dogathon event.

A free, fun family cycle from Claddagh to Salthill and back will take place in support of the Galway-Barna Greenway this Sunday, May 12.

Galway City Museum is this week rolling out the last of the very popular Sustainable Living Series which was funded by Creative Ireland. The aim of the series is to give participants practical tips on how to adopt a more sustainable model of living and to encourage them to start taking small steps to Refuse, Rethink, Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Recycle and Rot.

Galway Rovers Rugby Football club first played competitively in 1899. In 1907 they won the Connacht Junior Cup, which had been presented two years previously to the union by Professor Alfred Senior. The club disbanded after that, probably during World War I, but it was revived by a man named John L Sullivan in 1931. At the time, rugby was a very popular sport in Galway, Galwegians RFC had been in existence for a while as had UCG, Corinthians had just been formed, the Bish, St Mary’s, and the Grammar all played rugby, as did Salthill.

Craughwell AC’s Kevin Mooney was the winner of the first race of 2019, finishing the Resolution Run in a superb time of 15:57.

Many of Galway’s top track and field athletes competed at the AIT Baseline meet last Wednesday in the AIT Arena, but it was Cillin Greene who stole the show,

Lady Mary Heath was a famous pioneering pilot. She was born in Knockaderry near Newcastle West, Co Limerick, in 1896. She was an accomplished sportswoman who helped introduce women’s track events to the Olympics. The 1920s was an era when the world seemed to have gone aviation mad, thanks to the exploits of Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart. In 1927, Lady Mary became the first woman to hold a commercial licence in Britain, the first woman to parachute out of an aircraft, and the first pilot to fly a small open-cockpit plane from Cape Town to London. She set records for altitude in a small plane. For much of the 1920s she was one of the best known women in the world, brave, determined, and accomplished.

alway city comes alive with runners on Saturday evening for the 33rd edition of the famous Streets of Galway 8k Road Race.