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The new All-Ireland League season kicks off on Saturday, October 2 with difficult challenges for Connacht’s four representives.

The inaugural Network Chonamara meeting for all business people operating in the Conamara area will take place in the Connemara Coast Hotel on October 6 (6pm).

Gardai are hopeful of a breakthrough in the identification of the remains of a man found in a remote part of Connemara nearly four years ago.

There were very few industrial plants in Galway in the 1950s. Galway Textile Printers, known locally as the cotton factory, had just opened; there was the hat factory, and there were some small units around town, but that was it. Then the Lemass era arrived, and there was a change in government policy as the government began to actively encourage industries from abroad to locate here.

A wonderful evening of artistic celebration has been promised for the opening of the 33rd Clifden Community Arts Week which takes place tonight at 8pm in the Connemara West Leisure Centre.

Week II

IF YOU are in Clifden later this month, you will discover that almost everywhere you go in the town there will be an art exhibition on display.

There have been fresh appeals for information in relation to an unidentified man whose body was discovered in a remote part of Connemara nearly four years ago.

WOULD YOU like to learn how to paint? Do you already paint but feel you need to progress your skills? If so, a two day course next month is for you.

In aid of the West of Ireland Alzheimer’s Foundation, Elaine Mellett, manager of the Coast Club Leisure Centre with six others is set to undertake a swim across Galway Bay, from the shores of Ballyvaughan to the shores of Furbo — a distance of 13km, landing at the Connemara Coast Hotel on Sunday next August 29.