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TWENTY YEARS…two people. Directed by Lone Scherfig (director of An Education, Academy Award-nominated for Best Picture), the motion picture One Day is adapted for the screen by David Nicholls from his beloved bestselling novel of the same name. After one day together, July 15, 1988, their college graduation - Emma Morley (Academy Award nominee Anne Hathaway) and Dexter Mayhew (Jim Sturgess of Across the Universe) begin a friendship that will last a lifetime.

THIS SATURDAY and Sunday will see two nights of indie, rock, metal, electronic alternative and punk at the Roisin Dubh. Twelve bands are giving it everything in aid of the Celia Griffin Famine Memorial.

TULCA FESTIVAL of visual arts is an annual festival taking place in Galway. Running since 2002, Tulca features dynamic and exciting work from national and international visual art practitioners.

FEEDBACK, A collaborative exhibition between artists David Beattie and Karl Burke and writer and curator Chris Fite-Wassilak opens in Galway Arts Centre on September 2 and runs until October 1. Feedback a multimedia exhibition uses light, movement, and sound to take a quiet look at how we relate with our surroundings and provides us with the unique opportunity to respond to what we see. Through sculpture, photographic sequences, video, and sound the artists and writer tap into our uneasy relationship with the hidden processes of the natural world, look critically at experience and search out the possibility of wider perspectives.

EIGHT GIFTED Galway dance students, members of Corrib Dance Academy and Youth Ballet West, have recently secured placements on elite courses at prestigious schools in the UK and mainland Europe. The eight dancers are Stephanie Dufresne, Mary Walsh, Elspeth McKeever, Rebecca Lee, Caitlin Langan, Jessica Nolan, Brigitte O’Reilly and Gemma Brook. To have so many dancers from the region progressing to these blue-chip establishments is a truly remarkable achievement, as Youth Ballet West director Judith Sibley explains; “Normally each year there would be four young dancers from all of Ireland going away to these top vocational colleges, so to have eight going from Galway city is phenomenal. And these are hugely competitive courses, one school I spoke to had 4,000 people apply for just 25 places.”

John Quinn has just brought to the market No 23 An Sean Bhaile, Doughiska. This property, which is being offered as an executor sale, is in excellent condition throughout and is within walking distance of the Briarhill Shopping Centre, Galway Clinic, and other local amenities.

Sherry FitzGerald Kavanagh has been instructed to sell a site on Lough Atalia Road which comes with the benefit of full planning permission to build a single two-storey dwelling over semi-basement/garage.

The first half of the year has already seen some very positive results for Property Partners Maxwell Heaslip & Leonard with some notable sales being achieved. The company has had busy auction floors as astute buyers seem to be getting more involved in recent times. Pricing, naturally, has played a key role in getting purchasers to take that precarious step and to sign on the dotted line, but a major factor contributing to an excellent first half of the year has been the tenacity and experience that more than 100 years of combined knowledge in one office brings to the table. It is this experience that has seen the city based agents receive instructions to offer to the market a unique property and land in the scenic suburb of Oranswell on the outskirts of Galway city.

Our photograph today was taken in Eyre Square in 1922, and shows the Connaught Rangers parading through the city on their last day in Galway. It is interesting to see them on horseback, on foot, and with bicycles. As you can see in the foreground, there is a long line of soldiers standing in front of the crowd, and there is what looks like a temporary reviewing stand on the far side of the street.

Picturesque Dunguaire Castle is situated on the shores of Galway Bay. The castle takes its name from the ancient fort of Guaire, King of Connaught, who died in 662 AD. The castle was built in 1520 and was first occupied by Guaire’s descendants, the O’Hynes.