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The cameras began rolling in Galway this week for the new comedy the Seven Songs of Amy.

A Galway woman accused of murder was granted continuing bail in Dublin District Court this week.

NUI Galway has announced the establishment of a rugby youth academy to cater for teenagers in Galway.

• A special train service will operate from Galway to Dublin on Sunday for the Galway v Dublin All Ireland Minor Football Championship final.

Tony Joyce of O’Donnellan & Joyce auctioneers has recently brought to the open market an outstanding detached family home located at Ard Mhara Lodge, Maree Road, Oranmore. This magnificent property is situated in the heart of Oranmore. Its mature gardens offer total privacy while its situation offers easy access to all amenities and services and it is within easy commuting distance of Galway city.

FEEDBACK, A collaborative exhibition between artists David Beattie and Karl Burke and writer and curator Chris Fite-Wassilak opens in Galway Arts Centre on September 2 and runs until October 1. Feedback a multimedia exhibition uses light, movement, and sound to take a quiet look at how we relate with our surroundings and provides us with the unique opportunity to respond to what we see. Through sculpture, photographic sequences, video, and sound the artists and writer tap into our uneasy relationship with the hidden processes of the natural world, look critically at experience and search out the possibility of wider perspectives.

EIGHT GIFTED Galway dance students, members of Corrib Dance Academy and Youth Ballet West, have recently secured placements on elite courses at prestigious schools in the UK and mainland Europe. The eight dancers are Stephanie Dufresne, Mary Walsh, Elspeth McKeever, Rebecca Lee, Caitlin Langan, Jessica Nolan, Brigitte O’Reilly and Gemma Brook. To have so many dancers from the region progressing to these blue-chip establishments is a truly remarkable achievement, as Youth Ballet West director Judith Sibley explains; “Normally each year there would be four young dancers from all of Ireland going away to these top vocational colleges, so to have eight going from Galway city is phenomenal. And these are hugely competitive courses, one school I spoke to had 4,000 people apply for just 25 places.”

The Erris branch of the Irish Wheelchair Association would like to thank everyone who supported its recent barbecue which was held in the Broadhaven Bay Hotel.

Breaffy is the place to be next weekend (August 26, 27 and 28) with the inaugural Breaffy Blast Festival set to offer something for everyone.

Galway Family History Society West Ltd recently celebrated 25 years in existence with an outing for members and participants to Dáil Eireann, including a tour of Government Buildings and Leinster House and meeting with An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny.