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Galway 2020 invites Galwegians to embark ‘On a Voyage’ and witness the epic, heroic and extraordinary journey of a life-size paper boat setting sail across Galway Bay this weekend. This astonishing spectacle coincides with Sea Fest 2016, Ireland’s national maritime festival, taking place this year at Galway Harbour from today Thursday June 30 to Sunday July 3.

SeaFest 2016 will be launched tomorrow Friday May 20 as Galway prepares itself for the festival of all things nautical, honouring Ireland's multi-faceted relationship with the sea, which runs on July 2 and 3 at Galway Harbour.

If you want to enjoy a memorable experience why not get on down to the Galway Harbour and hop on board Ireland's largest passenger sailing yacht, the Atlantic Blue.

Galway has shown a noticeable improvement in tackling litter in the final Irish Business Against Litter survey of 2015, published this week. The city was found to be clean to European norms, and ranked joint 25th among 40 towns and cities surveyed.

Sherry FitzGerald welcomes No 7 Glor na Mara, New Dock Street, Galway, to the market for sale by private treaty. No 7 is an attractive two bedroom apartment close to Galway city centre.

Despite Fr Peter Conway’s row with the Protestant rector of Headford, the Rev Dean Plunkett (and there were some appalling battles against Protestants to come), he got on surprisingly well with the landlord of the whole area, the impressively named Richard Mensergh St George, Esq, also the High Sheriff. Initially, when Conway asked him if he would donate land for a church for his Catholic tenants, the request was turned down flat. But out of the blue, St George invited Conway to his house one day and offered him an acre of ground ‘anywhere on his estate’, rent free forever;  furthermore, he gave an additional seven acres of land for a priest’s house, and a subscription of £20 for a school.

O’Donnellan & Joyce’s property auction on October 2 from 10am in the Harbour Hotel, Galway, will be the largest auction in the west of Ireland this year with enormous interest anticipated.