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Gohery Properties will offer for sale by public auction one of the finest properties to come to the market in The Claddagh on November 7 in The Ardilaun hotel, Taylor’s Hill.

Colleran auctioneers has been favoured with yet another property in The Claddagh, easily one of Galway's most sought after locations. No 15 Upper Fairhill is a beautiful, bright, two bedroom end of terrace home on a very large site offering lots of potential for further development if required.

The Galway International Oyster and Seafood Festival celebrates its 60th birthday this month with an extended four-day programme that includes seveal new events.

Galway is set to become a ‘floral city’ under a new partnership between Salthill and city businesses and the Galway City Council.

The Fisheries Tower that has long watched over Wolfe Tone Bridge is due to be repaired and re-opened in the coming months.

With more than 74 empty houses and 3,619 households on the housing waiting list, the recent allocation of €415,000 for the city, although welcome, is a drop in the ocean with more needed to tackle the lack of housing which is at crisis point.

Eileen McMahon, a UK based solicitor came to East Clare in June 2008 to take a short sabbatical to write her book on psychological trauma. She had always worked on trauma cases during her 20 years career in personal injury litigation.

At the beginning of the last century, the Prince of Wales would have been one of the most famous personalities known to most Irish people. He had been to County Galway on a few occasions hunting, but when it was announced he was going to make an official visit, it aroused very mixed emotions. There were a lot of objections locally, led by an umbrella group known as the National Council. They disrupted preparatory meetings by shouting and heckling. Nationalists were not impressed either and other objectors included Edward Martyn, WB Yeats, Maud Gonne, and George Moore.

The Galway Technical Institute is celebrating 75 years serving the educational needs of both local learners and, in more recent times, learners from far flung corners of the land.

THE CLADDAGH was once a vibrant fishing village of thatched cottages and its people had a distinctive form of dress.