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Round five of the league took place recently in Ballinrobe with 45 cyclists from around the province racing over a 34 mile lap around Lough Mask. A 10 minute handicap separated the groups from front to back. The scratch group consisted of inform Charles Prendergast, Cunga CC, and Dave Brennan, Castlebar.

“A short walk on the gravelled path and I was before the man I had come to see. There was a great peace about him as he sat there, leg crossed upon leg, hat rakish on his head, mute in the sculptured dignity of stone. Ever since I had learned the Gaelic, I had loved him, this strange man of dreams whose friends were the birds and the furry people of the wood, the wind and the small white stars.

Two Galway students have been selected to represent Ireland at the schools’ international in Cardiff on July 16.

The Galway Schools’ Soccer and Gaelic Football Academy returns once more this summer.

One of the few real joys on the Galway senior soccer scene this season has been the substantial form of Mervue Utd.

Gloomy and dismal is the only way to describe the fare on offer last Sunday in McHale Park between Galway and Mayo in the Connacht senior football championship.

Galway United host UCD in Terryland Park tomorrow evening as the club seeks to end its bleakest losing run.

Tommy Joyce’s minor panel are on the road again when they travel to Carrick-on-Shannon on Saturday to face Leitrim in the Connacht semi-final (7pm) in a game they are expected to win.

Galway-based independent radio producer Mary Owens has won a silver prize at the prestigious New York International Awards for her innovative series celebrating Ireland’s maritime song tradition. The Sea in Song was broadcast by RTÉ Lyric FM and funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland.

Galway has a multiplicity of festivals, all honed over the years into something special. But none of these made the instant impact that the Galway Garden Festival did when it was inaugurated last year, over two days of differing climatic conditions at the beautifully-restored Claregalway Castle.