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Trailing by two goals following Tuesday's promotion/relegation playoff Galway United will require a minor miracle when hosting Monaghan United in the second leg at Terryland Park tomorrow evening.

Glenvale Court is a beautiful residential development of family homes located just off the Clybaun Road, Knocknacarra, Galway. In terms of convenience this home is ideally located close to the Clybaun Hotel, Joyce’s Supermarket and the Knocknacarra Shopping Centre.

After a very successful five-week promotion of the properties due to go to auction tomorrow O’Donnellan and Joyce foresee a huge turnout and a successful conclusion to the auction. In all, eight properties will go under the hammer, originally there were nine, but the property at 124 Dangan Heights was sold prior to auction when a substantial offer was made within the first three weeks of the campaign and the owners made the decision to accept it.

FAMILY FOLKLORE has it that when Pádraic Ó Conaire was broke, a fairly frequent occurrence by all accounts, he would approach the grandfather Tom ‘Cork’ Kenny, co-founder and editor of the Connaught Tribune, hoping he would publish a story in the paper and pay him.

THE TULCA festival, which begins today, will feature a range of workshops looking at issues like artist collectives, planning and local government, and a public art clinic.

THE CUCKOO Club Galway, a new night promoting original music, opens in De Burgos, Augustine Street, tonight, at 8pm.

Galway city based Ireland Assist Ltd/MAPFRE Assistance has recently entered into the direct travel insurance market with the launch of the website www.insureandgo.ie resulting in the creation of up to 20 job opportunities.

This week sees the reopening of the Cunniffe Electric Expert at Galway Shopping Centre after a major face lift.

The Galway Shopping Centre Fashion Show is on tonight Thursday November 3. In aid of Croí, the local charity fighting Heart Disease and Stroke, the event will be hosted by TV3’s Sybil Mulcahy at the The Ardilaun hotel, Taylor’s Hill, Galway.

If truth be told, I did it more for my three-year-old daughter than for myself. As the first evening of winter enveloped us last Sunday evening, I considered just how rare an occasion it would be to welcome home a president-elect to Galway. It might be something that we never again see in our lifetimes. But she might. Never before has any other Galway person of any age experienced it, so such an event might be like Halley’s comet.