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The Maritime Restaurant at the Clybaun Hotel, Knocknacarra, has always been a popular Sunday dining destination for families. Now with enhanced safety and social distancing measures, the four-star hotel has recently resumed its traditional Sunday carvery between 12.30pm and 4pm. Diners can enjoy a varied, family-friendly, menu with a selection of popular classics and Sunday specials.

Catch up with the great minds that you have been missing over the last few months. Afternoon tea is an indulgent treat that everyone should try. The Lough Rea Hotel and Spa is now serving afternoon tea in the beautiful surrounds of the Lir Lounge.

Rise and shine

1. No fitness plan means no hope

Rapid solutions to the impasse over a temporary cycleway through Salthill are available and have wide public support, according to the Galway Urban Greenway Alliance.

The owners of the thriving Meadow Court Hotel in Loughrea have dismissed what they have described as ‘malicious, untrue and fabricated rumours” circulating recently that the hotel was up for sale.

Waiting until September to introduce a staycation subsidy will be "too little too late" for the Irish tourism sector, and will mean "little or nothing" to those with children who will not be able to holiday once schools return.

“Every Saturday morning a procession of donkey-carts set out, nose to tail, for the market in Galway. This took place in the triangular patch by the Collegiate Church of St Nicholas. It dates from 1320 and was dedicated to St Nicholas, the patron saint of sailors, who was chosen then as the patron saint of Galway. There the donkeys were unharnessed and tethered to a wheel, the shafts were let down to the ground and the goods to be sold were displayed on the sloping cart. Vendors came from many more prosperous areas and their wares were a source of envy to those who lived in the congested strip along the coast. Eggs in big wicker baskets with hinged lids, ducks, hens and chickens, wooden kegs of buttermilk, home churned butter laid in rolls on cabbage-leaves, cabbages, onions, sometimes geese, hand-knitted socks – all sold briskly throughout the morning to the people of the town.

The Complete Wild Atlantic Way Challenge 2020 will take place from August 17 to 30 starting in Derry and finishing up in Cork - with over 2,500km to be covered over 14 days.

Two weeks following the Fáilte Ireland launched COVID-19 Safety Charter for the tourism industry, the Athlone-based Hodson Bay Group is close to becoming the first hotel group in Ireland to successfully get the Safety Charter stamp of approval.