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BioBlitz at ATU highlights importance of urban habitats

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A BioBlitz survey of Atlantic Technological University’s main Galway campus has revealed a huge array of biodiversity, with participants recording a total of 128 species in one hour at the Old Dublin Road facility.

Galway Para-Olympic rowers make history

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Three Galway rowers are at the forefront of Rowing Ireland’s Para Olympic rowing programme.

Dreaming of Paralympic glory.

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It was Manchester airport, March 2008, and the flight to Galway had been delayed. Disgruntled passengers wandered through the departures terminal, concerned that Galway Airport might be closed by the time their plane landed. The complaints grew louder with the announcement of a further two hour delay. ‘All intending passengers’ were impatient and fed up. Well, almost all. There was one exception. In the midst of the unhappy throng, there was one person who would have more reason than most to complain and bemoan their predicament. Accompanied by her mother, Aileen, was a young Clarinbridge girl, who was returning home having just had re-construction surgery performed on her foot in a hospital in Sheffield. This was another staging post in what had been a series of operations carried out over a number of years in the English city. Amidst the doom and gloom of the delayed passengers, she stood out like a beacon of light. Smiling, friendly, warm and chatty, welcome to Katie O’Brien. She was twelve years of age.

Brave Mitchels give it their all in final showdown

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Dublin captain Sinéad Aherne scored 0-4 and St Sylvester’s were crowned currentaccount.ie All-Ireland Intermediate club champions following a thrilling win over Castlebar Mitchels at Duggan Park in Ballinasloe.

Eyes On The Horizon - live outdoor music for October

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Leading Galway bands and singers, like Rofi James, Galway Street Club, Marc Roberts, Eoin Dolan, and Katie O’Connor and Steven Sharpe, will play Eyes On The Horizon, the new series of outdoor performances and happenings.

iDonate online fundraising page established to honour life of former Athlone resident

Ballinasloe Cancer Support Centre have expressed gratitude to the family of the late Dean O’Farrell who recently established an iDonate fundraising page to honour the memory of the former Athlone resident.

Amhráin - celebrating Galway in song

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TRACY BRUEN, Steven Sharpe, Field Trip, Katie O’Connor, Eoin Dolan, and an array of other stellar talents from Galway’s vibrant music scene, will appear in a short film celebrating Galway music and the city itself.

Fluent Irish speaking student nurses invited to apply for €5,000 bursary

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Gradam Áras Chois Fharraige is open to fluent Irish speakers beginning a nursing degree in 2021.

‘It’s a big, noisy, intergenerational book’

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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.

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