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AIB is to close four branches in Mayo, a move which has received widespread criticism. The branches are located in Charlestown, Belmullet, Kiltimagh, and Ballyhaunis and they will cease trading on October 26 next.

The south Bostonian, James Brendan Connolly, was once described by Joseph Conrad as the ‘best sea-story writer in America’. He wrote 19 novels and short stories about ships and sailors at sea, the US navy, submarine patrols in World War I, and the heroic struggles of the Gloucester fishermen on the treacherous Grand Bank and Nova Scotia regions hunting for cod and halibut.

An Taoiseach Enda Kenny will today attend the opening of the new Galway offices of financial services company Grant Thornton.

Galway kickboxer Bryan Merrigan is aiming to become the first fighter to win an IKF sanctioned All Ireland K-1 title.

Ireland should maintain their winning ways when they tackle Scotland in the Electric Ireland u20 Six Nations Championship match under the Dubarry Park, Athlone, floodlights tonight, Friday March 9, kick off 7pm. Ireland have three wins from three starts and should account for the visitors who are rock bottom of the league table after shifting heavy defeats in their fixtures to date.

St Mary’s opened in 1912 with 60 boarders and 17 day boys. The first school sports there took place in 1928, and since then the college has produced many fine athletes in track and field. The first mention of All-Ireland sports in the annals of the school concerns Tom Fahy, who in 1938 set a new Irish record for the 12lb shot. In 1939 the school won its first Connacht Schools title; in 1943, it won three titles, four in 1946, and five in 1947. In that last year, one athlete, Martin Kilmartin, won three golds, and set records in both the triple jump and the long jump. In 1948 the college again won five titles, and in 1950 John Linnane set a new Irish record in the pole vault.

The highlight of the rowing season in Galway, the annual Head of the River, returns to the Corrib on Saturday.

“I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians,” the former French president Charles De Gaulle once said. Indeed he would have been within his rights to substitute the word ‘dangerous’ for ‘serious’.

Gaeltacht and Church of Ireland schools across Galway and the west face closure if the Government’s plans for sweeping cuts and amalgamations come into force.

Kilkenny MEP for Ireland East Liam Aylward has criticised the Government for cuts which he says will affect the most vulnerable farmers living in disadvantaged areas.