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With just four weeks to go until the next Connacht Property Auction, the auction team are inviting entries for the event which will be held on February 26 in the Menlo Park Hotel, Galway.

The long-awaited N59 Maam Cross to Oughterard road improvement project is to be progressed under the National Road Authority (NRA) Minor Works Scheme for 2015, details of which were announced last evening.

The Clifden Community School public speaking team won the Business Professional Women Connacht Public Speaking Regional Competition held in The Ardilaun hotel on November 11.Ten teams from Connacht took part.

A surprising rescuer of the Tuke assisted emigration scheme from the west of Ireland came from the London government. After the first group of 1,315 people had sailed from Galway for America on April 28 1882, the Tukes’ emigration fund was practically exhausted. Yet the demand for places grew each day. Now more than 6,000 applications, mainly from the Clifden area, but also from Belmullet, Newport and Oughterard, poured into the Clifden union where James Hack Tuke had his office. While poverty and famine remained endemic in the west of Ireland, people with spirit must have felt that the day-to-day grind was never ending. The threat of another Great Famine was very real. They wanted a new life.

A Clifden man, who was one of the founding-members of the San Patricio Brigade of the Mexican army, is to have a Sinn Féin cumann named after him.

GORDON BUCHANAN, the wildlife documentary maker and TV presenter is coming to Galway to share stories of his incredible experiences with nature’s most fearsome and majestic animals.

The agricultural crisis of 1879, and growing civic unrest, prompted the Society of Friends in England to send James Hack Tuke to the west to inquire into conditions and to distribute relief. Tuke, the son of a well-to-do tea and coffee merchant family in York, England, published his observations in Irish Distress and its Remedies: A visit to Donegal and Connaught in the spring of 1880. In clear-cut language he highlighted the widespread distress and destitution at a time when the British government questioned the extent of the crisis.

O’Donnellan & Joyce auctioneers will hold the largest property auction ever held in the west of Ireland tomorrow (Friday) with 70 properties going under the auction hammer. The auction takes place in the Harbour Hotel and it expected to be packed to capacity — according to the company agents have been overwhelmed with enquires locally, across the country, and from abroad.

THE ART of Joe Boske is synonymous with the great Galway Arts Festival posters of the 1980s as well as with a surreal, off-beat way of looking at the west of Ireland.

THE ARTIST Yvonne King is holding two exhibitions this month, one as part of the Clifden Arts Festival, the other in the Galway City Library.