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The annual Cong Galway Boat Race, sponsored by Ashford Estate, took place last weekend against a backdrop of challenging weather conditions.

Ireland’s only surviving wooden sail cargo vessel revived a tradition lost a century ago when it embarked on a symbolic series of sustainable wind-powered supply trips to islands on the south and west coasts on Sunday. And today (Thursday) it sets off on a journey from Baltimore to the Aran Islands.

The annual Frances Thornton Memorial Galway Bay Swim in aid of Cancer Care West has been held throughout the month of August this year and has already raised more than €100,000.

The awardwinning ‘Guide to Lough Corrib’s Early Monastic Sites’ written by Rev Anthony Previté a decade ago has just been reprinted and is now available at the price of €15 from Charlie Byrne’s and other bookshops.

‘Aughrim is no more, St Ruth is dead,

The level of traffic throughout Ireland is returning to pre-pandemic levels, the Central Statistics Office (CSO) has said.

SINÉAD HYNES is a closed book emotionally. She is not inclined to share what goes on inside her with her husband Alex, and only with difficulty with herself. For her, it is easier to lie in hospital, claiming she has respiratory illness, than to tell him the truth.

GALWAY'S FIRST comedy show of the autumn will take place in Massimo, William Street West, next week, with stand-up from Stephen Ryan, Eddie Mullarkey, and MC Karl Spain.

Amazon have announced a new 115-megawatt (MW) wind farm project in Ardderroo, Galway, which will begin operating in 2022, and will support their Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centres in the country.

Calling all cycling enthusiasts! Your county needs you to take part in the ‘All Ireland Cycle’, a challenge to cycle 200km in 10 days between August 28th and September 6th to help raise funds for the National Breast Cancer Research Institute.