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Connacht return to the Galway Sportsground where they face home fixtures over the next two weekends that will prove crucial in determining how their season concludes.

Galway hurling champions Gort had a disappointing outing in the Gaelic Grounds on Saturday afternoon in the All-Ireland club semi-final when they found the Offaly champions, Coolderry, too good on the day, losing out on a score-line of 3-16 to 0-17.

TODDLER TIME is a new monthly event which will take place at the Galway Omniplex and is aimed at children who have not yet started school.

A CHARITY open mic night to raise funds for the children's ‘Terremoto’ soccer club in Montevideo, Uruguay, takes place this Saturday in Monroe’s Live.

THE ITALIAN born, Galway based artist Laura Vecchi Forde will host an exhibition of her paintings at the Norman Villa Gallery, Salthill.

THE MUSIC of Mozart will be performed in Galway next weekend, across two concerts and a film screening, celebrating the genius of the man Albert Einstein called “the greatest composer of all”.

Galway will host a Brazilian carnival event tomorrow in the Rowing Club in Woodquay from 8.30pm and everyone is invited.

Twenty five secondary schools in Mayo are to get high speed (100Mbps) broadband over the next few years as part of a national programme being rolled out in all secondary schools. Welcoming the announcement, Minister for State at the Department of Transport, Tourism & Sport, Michael Ring detailed the Mayo schools as follows:

A crowd of some 10,000 people are expected to descend on McHale Park on Saturday evening, when the All Ireland champions Dublin come to town for the second round of the Allianz Football League. Tomorrow night’s game will throw in at the earlier time of 6.30pm from the rest of Mayo’s Saturday night league schedule to avoid a clash with Ireland’s RBS Six Nations game with France in Paris which gets under way at 8pm. But the attraction of a Saturday night game and the box office attraction of last year’s All Ireland champions is expected to swell the attendance in McHale Park.

It is a normally a once in a lifetime thing for most people, some get a second chance at it, but for the vast majority it is a one shot deal. Getting to an All Ireland Club final is the most special occasion for anyone involved in a club. It is the pure essence of what the GAA is about, the smallest unit of the organisation, making it all the way to the greatest stage that it possibly can. While the All Ireland senior club championships have been one of the highlights of the GAA calendar for decades now, the introduction of the All Ireland championship at junior and intermediate level has brought the ability to achieve the ultimate to every club in the country which has a rutted field, a run down club house, and puts out a team into championship action every year, against the odds of modern life, the depopulation of rural Ireland, and the mass youth emigration that is currently happening across the isle.