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The start of the Airtricity League campaign is now only eight days away and Galway FC continue their preparations with two more friendlies against Mervue United at Fahy's Field this evening (7.15pm) and UCD at Drom on Saturday afternoon (3pm).

Galway FC's opening game in the Airtricity League will be a home fixture against first division favourites Longford Town on Friday March 7 at Eamonn Deacy Park.

This property must be viewed to be appreciated. No 12 Lakewood Park would make an ideal starter home due to its convenient location close to Galway city centre.

No 12 Lakewood Park must be viewed to be appreciated. It would make the ideal starter home due to its convenient location close to Galway city centre.

Social Inclusion Week returns this month and will see a host of different events, ranging from the social to the cultural, taking place across the city from this Monday until Sunday October 20.

As part of Social Inclusion Week for Galway City, COPE Galway Resettlement and Tenancy Service will launch its Community Garden at the Towards Independence Project on the Dyke Road at 12 o’clock on Tuesday next October 15.

The news that came out way last night that compromise has been reached in the ongoing campaign to have a single unified team representing Galway city and county in League of Ireland football is to be welcomed. Although, as is the case with most compromises, the solution is not ideal for all parties who may have had to budge from their original positions, it is good news for the football fan who has missed the fortnightly trips to Eamonn Deacy Park.

For those of us for whom Friday nights were irrevocably changed when top flight football left Terryland, there will always be a memory of the cups of Bovril and the smell of wintergreenand the smack of leather on a hardened hip in the days before the Dyke Road venue became one of the best football stadiums in the country. Back then with the pitch facing a different alignment, the cold breeze coming in off the Corrib on those winter’s days hardened many a memory in the minds of football fans across not just the city and county, but beyond. Back then when the man after whom the ground is now named marshalled the centre of the pitch, when the Bovril in your cup rippled with every thundering tackle from Miko Nolan, when Kevin Cassidy ran Mario Kempes-style through the hearts of many a defence, when Philip Fay and Carl Humphries threaded the ball down the sidelines like needles in the hands of a seasoned seamstress, they created a sort of magic for every youngster in the ground. And later when Ricky and Jumbo and Donie et al carried that magic to Glenina and back, there was a feeling that no matter the result, you never went home feeling cheated from a day out at Terryland.

The Dyke Road will be closed from 9.30am to 4.30pm today (Thursday) and tomorrow to allow for essential repair works to Terryland Bridge.

The Galway Bay Against Salmon Cages has vowed to keep putting the pressure on Government to halt any plans for a Galway Bay Salmon Fish Farm with campaign members to descend on the constituency office of An Taoiseach Enda Kenny in Castlebar this Saturday.