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In the 1930s, Ireland instructed all of its consul officials in Europe not to issue visas to Jewish refugees, but the country was also in a state of economic stagnation at the time and Seán Lemass realised that new industries would help the country. An Irish Jewish businessman, Marcus Witztum, offered to help him and went to Paris, met Henri Orbach there who owned a small hat factory and suggested he open a business in Ireland, a safer place for people of the Jewish persuasion than continental Europe. Orbach agreed.

Gravity & Other Myths has become a firm favourite with Galway International Arts Festival audiences in recent years, and never fail to astound and inspire with their breathtaking physical theatre.

As a kid, I used to love when the circus came to town. Early one morning, there would be the ping-ping ping of the tent pegs being driven into the ground in The Green, just behind my home house in Ballinrobe. We would go to school excited with the thought that by the time we ran home at lunchtime across the town for a quickly-consumed dinner (dinner in the middle of the day people, you see), the town park would have been transformed into something colourful and magical and so very different from the nothingness that was normally there.

Heskin auctioneers presents this superbly located three bedroom apartment to the market, located in the heart of Salthill overlooking the Promenade and park beside Grattan Beach.

Justin (Jack) Kavanagh from National Geographic will launch the latest volume of the Galway’s Own Magazine on Sunday at 4 pm in the Galway Rowing Club in Woodquay.

O’Donnellan & Joyce auctioneers is offering for sale this unique residence on an impressive corner site in one of the most desirable residential locations in Galway city.

Colleran auctioneers has just been favoured with the sale of No 62 Gort Na Coiribe, opposite Dunnes Stores on the Headford Road. This is a bright, spacious, four bedroom three storey terraced house. It is located a short walk from Eyre Square adjacent to the banks of the Corrib, on the opposite side of the river to University of Galway and beside three retail parks and a cinema.

A new, Irish documentary directed by Galway native Pamela Finn will be showcased at the JFK Hyannis Museum Cape Cod, Massachusetts United States and Galway City Museum this summer.

My, how the tables have turned in the sixty years this week since President John F Kennedy stood in Eyre Square and said ‘if the day was clear enough, and if you went down to the bay, and you looked west, and your sight was good enough, you would see Boston, Massachussetts. And if you did, you would see down working on the docks there some Doughertys and Flahertys and Ryans and cousins of yours who have gone to Boston and made good.”