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Galway's Father Griffin's Ladies Football Club has been selected to participate in the 2023/24 Club2Gether Programme which aims to strengthen club structures.

Congratulations to all of the U13 girls who participated in the LGFA Connaught blitz last weekend, at the Mayo GAA Centre of Excellence. Congratulations to the coaches and the coordinators for getting the team to this stage of development.

This photograph of St Patrick’s Church and part of Forster Street was taken from the Galway/Clifden Railway Line overlooking James Mahon’s Field where the circuses used to be long ago. It was taken c1920.

Galway found the going tough against a rampant Kerry outfit in the Lidl NFL division one final at Croke Park on the weekend.

Galway ladies footballers head to Croke Park on Saturday with high hopes of claiming this season's Lidl Ladies' National Football League division one crown.

Galway survived a late Cork rally to retain their unbeaten run in the Lidl Ladies National Football League at Pearse Stadium in Salthill, running out 1-15 to 4-4 winners.

This lane is one of the most attractive in Galway and one of the most historic. There were originally 14 lanes in medieval Galway and this is one of the few that still exist. It dates back to the 16th century. As our photograph shows, it must have been very impressive back then.

Kate Slevin kicked the final five points as Galway began their Lidl National Football League Division 1 campaign with an impressive win over Donegal at Tuam Stadium.

On October 2 1876 Patrick Barrett of Ballynahalia, wrote a long letter to Dr T Brodie, the Local Government Board inspector, bitterly complaining about Doctor James Connolly, who failed, ‘through drunkenness’, to promptly attend his heavily pregnant wife. Barrett demanded a sworn inquiry into the whole sorry business, causing a row that fiercely divided the community of Moycullen, where old loyalties silenced witnesses from giving evidence, leading to a stunning finale of bribery and corruption that would turn the one street county Galway village into a Ken Bruen landscape. Barrett, accompanied by his brother-in-law Tom Conneely, set out briskly to call Dr Connolly, the local dispensary doctor, as his wife, Anne, was dangerously ill in child labour. The doctor’s housekeeper told them the doctor was gone into Moycullen, and not expected home till around 10pm. The two men walked to Moycullen as fast as they could. Just as they passed John Turner’s public-house they saw the doctor standing by the wall. The doctor began to move off towards John Geraghty’s pub, when Barrett asked him to come to his home immediately as his wife was very ill. The doctor asked: ‘Have you a ticket? (at that time for a doctor to make a home-visit a ticket had to be got from Mr Griffin, the Relieving officer for the area), Barrett said ‘No’, but if the doctor came he would get a ticket later. The doctor then asked Barrett to give him one shilling for his fee, to which Barrett replied that he had no money. Doctor Connolly turned away saying: ‘Go to the devil, or to the poor-house’, followed by abusive and derogatory language too unseemly to be included in the report. The doctor walked away leaving Barrett ‘excited’, and at the point where he almost lost his temper; but instead, he thought he would have the law on him. ‘Do I have to go into Galway to get a doctor?’ he asks.