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There is a lot of genuine disappointment in Galway football circles this week after last Saturday’s one point defeat to Antrim who played their football in Division Three of the NFL last season, and whose last Ulster senior title was in 1951 and whose last Ulster minor title came thirty years ago in 1982.

One of the scary aspects about last weekend’s one point (0-11 to 0-10) defeat to Antrim in Casement Park was that so few football people in the county were genuinely surprised by the loss.

Foróige is running a summer camp from Monday July 23 to Friday 27 to raise money for its Galway City Youth Cafe in the Fairgreen.

Following the launch of a campaign by the Advertiser last week, political momentum to secure funds for the Solas Picture Palace on Lower Merchants Road is gaining pace, with Galway TDs and senators meeting Environment Minister Phil Hogan yesterday.

The grey skies and drizzle that greeted the opening of 35th Galway Arts Festival did nothing to dampen the good spirits of those who attended the Radisson Hotel on Monday evening to mark the occasion.

Even though you would not have thought it at teatime at Casement Park in Belfast last Saturday evening, everything Galway seems to touch at the moment seems to turn to gold. The eyes of the country are perpetually fixed on the perpetual parties and festivals that break up the rainy summer months for us, the VOR was a great success and this week, the city and county are grateful beneficiaries of the economic viagra for the economy — the much vaunted Government Stimulus which on Tuesday sent the guts of 4,000 jobs our way in the guise of several shovel ready infrastructural projects which when complete will change substantially the commuting and health care habits of a good proportion of our population.

A CONCERT of North Indian classical music will be held in Áras na nGael on Thursday July 26 at 7pm as part of the Galway Fringe Festival.

ON SHOP windows in the city centre; in The Shed at the Docks, in 126, and at the Norman Villa Gallery in Salthill, is are a feast of art exhibitions to see this month.

JACK AND Tommy are on their annual St Patrick’s Week jaunt in New York and planning to hit the bars of The Big Apple with a vengeance.

JULIAN GOUGH’S The Great Goat Bubble first saw the light of day as an article for The Financial Times in 2003.