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New boys Oughterard face the daunting challenge of squaring up to Corofin in this season's shortened senior football championship, but it is a task the Corrib club is relishing.

Game week 35 came to a close on Monday night with a strike from Irish striker Michael Obafemi in the 96th minute to dent Man United's Champions League aspirations. The round saw plenty of upsets and action with West Ham, Watford, Bournemouth, and Aston Villa earning crucial wins in the fight against relegation, Sheffield United and Wolves clawing their back into European contention and Norwich City being confirmed as the first team to succumb to the drop.

IT IS very likely the world’s first drama series produced entirely on Zoom, and it is the brainchild of Galwegians on lockdown in Clapham Common, Buckinghamshire, An Spideal, Salthill, and Tenerife.

Installing a temporary cycle track from Claddagh to Blackrock in Salthill will benefit thousands of locals and many local businesses in myriad ways, the Galway Urban Greenway Alliance said last evening.

BY BEN O’GORMAN

Two Galway buildings finished in the top three in the race to find the winning project in the 2020 RIAI Public Choice Award announced by The Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI) this week.

On Sight is a partnership project by the National Museum of Ireland, Mayo County Council, Mayo Artsquad and independent artists.

GHR Consulting is a Human Resources and Recruitment consultancy based in Galway, set up by Ruairi Guckian in October, 2019. A native of Salthill, Ruairi is a highly experienced HR professional. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from NUIG, a Master’s Degree in Corporate Strategy and People Management and Development from NUIG, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Human Resource Management from the London Metropolitan University.

As someone who is absolutely fascinated by the subject of history, it is rather inexplicable that in my five and half years of living in Galway that the only real historical fact I knew about the county was Mayor James Lynch Fitzstephen hanged his own son Walter for murder and thus came the term lynching. So when the opportunity to read The Little Book of Galway presented itself, I finally had a chance to bring my Galway history knowledge up to scratch and it did not disappoint.

WE MAY be exiting lockdown, but the aftermath of Covid-19 - social distancing, the absence of a vaccine, an oncoming world-wide recession - will remain with us for some time.