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Leading builder O’Malley Construction Company is selling its current stock of high-spec Galway city properties. The company will hold a one day sale this Saturday, September 24, in the O’Malley Construction offices in Augustine House, St Augustine Street.

Historic paintings of Galway are scarce enough so it is always good to come across them. Our image today is one of the Claddagh painted by Charles Lamb in the 1930s. It is hardly surprising that visitors, painters, poets, and novelists were attracted to this fishing village that was in Galway, but not of it. They were all fascinated by the odd assortment of thatched cottages, built at haphazard angles, with intersecting streets and lanes in which one could lose one’s way within a couple of acres. Sometimes they were built in irregular squares or circles around little greens where the young children played. The houses were very small, and while some showed signs of poverty, most were very clean and neat. The back doors of many of the houses looked into the front door of their neighbours, and though the buildings were quaint, picturesque, and romantic, modern sanitation was unknown there.

THE WESTERN Writers’ Centre is offering a creative writing course in The Galway People’s Resource Centre Training Room, Hynes Building, St Clare’s Walk, Merchants Road.

THE GALWAY Musical Society will hold an open night tomorrow at 8pm in Massimo when details of its upcoming production will be announced.

Minister of State for Tourism and Sport Michael Ring has announced €516,977 in funding for six sports projects in Co Mayo.

The Latin Quarter Galway has announced details of Guinness Live, a new music festival for Galway. It will take place from Thursday September 22 until Sunday September 25, and will feature an extensive line-up of national and local acts in a series of intimate gigs in venues and pubs throughout the city’s Latin Quarter, with 50 live performances over four nights. Admission to all gigs is free and is on a first-come, first-served basis.

An interesting challenge awaits Connacht this evening when they come up against Michael Bradley’s Edinburgh at Murrayfield (7.30pm). Connacht travel to the Scottish capital with the momentum of two wins on the trot, but they will come up against an Edinburgh outfit determined to get their first points in this season’s RaboDirect Pro 12. Connacht have never beaten Edinburgh at home, and coach Eric Elwood knows Bradley has the advantage in this encounter.

The Latin Quarter Galway has announced details of Guinness Live, a brand new music festival for Galway.

A new book aimed for potential entrepreneurs and business people has been written by Galway's Bernard O'Hara.

GrabOne.ie, a new Irish social buying website, has just launched on the Galway market, and to celebrate the launch, it will be giving its Facebook fans a chance to win two Connacht Rugby season tickets this week.