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NEXT WEEKEND at the Town Hall Theatre, there will be an intriguing new play which conjures up 50 years of local history amid a story of typical Galway life and enduring friendship.

A stunning hat-trick from striker Daniel Tully helped Mervue to a 3 - 1 victory over Salthill Devon in the Connacht Youth Cup final.

St Mary's College is once again flying the flag for Galway football after winning this year’s UMBRO FAI Schools Senior Cup final.

Galway will be hoping their fine tradition in schools’ soccer continues today when St Mary’s face Salesian College, Celbridge, in the 2010 FAIS Irish Senior A Cup final in Flancare Park, Longford Town (1pm).

A NEW chapter in the story of The Kanyu Tree opens tomorrow when the Salthill based band of brothers release their second single ‘Congratulations’ with two shows in the city.

Competitive rowing had been taking place on the Corrib for many years when the Ancient Order of Hibernians decided to form a new club in 1910. They got local contractor Walter Flaherty (who had already built the Corrib Club) to build a wooden clubhouse on the site of the present Galway Rowing Club. It was tarred each year up to 1970 in order to preserve the wood, and so it became known as ‘the Blackening Box’. In that year also there was a dispute in Saint Patrick’s Rowing Club and a number of oarsmen left and joined the new club.

WHILE THE winter closes in around us, there will be a piece of Galway forever bathed in sunshine - the Róisín Dubh on a night when The Kanyu Tree play.

I have often been intrigued by the stories of German spies parachuted into Ireland during World War II. It was quite an intriguing time. De Valera was anxious to steer the country in neutral waters, despite serious pressure from Britain and America to at least open our ports to the transatlantic convoys which were being hammered by German U-boats. The IRA and its sympathisers, were pro German to such an extent that Germany believed it could foster a lot of trouble in Britain’s ‘back yard’ by encouraging the IRA to make mischief.