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The Galway senior footballers will be targeting promotion from division two this season, and the first step starts this Sunday when they face Cork in Pearse Stadium (2pm) in their opening National Football League fixture.

Shannon Group’s role as a key driver of regional economic growth has been underlined by increases in 2016 passenger and visitor numbers to Shannon Airport and Shannon Heritage, respectively.

Galway United continues to build for the new season under manager Shane Keegan, with Gavan Holohan being the latest to move to Eamonn Deacy Park.

HE PLAYS a 10-string fiddle called the Hardanger d'Amore, has recorded 12 albums, and worked with The Gloaming. This month he tours with Cormac Begley, and they will play the Róisín Dubh.

MARTIN HAYES and Dennis Cahill just may be one of, if not the greatest, partnership in Irish trad. The duo, going strong since they met in Chicago in the 1980s, make a welcome return to Galway, to play the Róisín Dubh this month.

Last Saturday night two players on the Winning Streak TV game show brought home €65,000 in prizes between them. Mary O’Donnell from Castlebar won €30,000 including a holiday to Dubai, and Esther Scahill from Kiltimagh won €35,000.

A Salthill man who was ordained to the priesthood in 1982 was appointed diocesan administrator earlier this week.

The announcement was made in Rome at 11am (Irish time) that His Holiness Pope Francis has accepted the retirement of Most Reverend Martin Drennan, Bishop of Galway and Kilmacduagh, and Apostolic Administrator of Kilfenora, on grounds of ill health and on medical advice. 

The footballers from Galway defeated Roscommon easily on Sunday afternoon in McHale Park in the Connacht final, winning by 3-16 to 0-14.

rotests will be held in Galway, in solidarity with protests in Clare and Dublin, against the visit to Ireland later this month of the highly controversial presumptive Republic US presidential candidate Donald Trump.