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The first round of the Brooks Group Senior Hurling Championship went to script for the main contenders. Five-in-a-row chasing St Thomas’, perennial challengers Turloughmore, and last year’s beaten finalists Clarinbridge, all registered wins as the race for the Tom Callanan Cup got underway.

With only a few days to go before the gates of Galway Racecourse open to welcome hundreds of vintage and classic cars, tractors, motorbikes, steam engines and much more, it already promises to be the biggest show held in Ireland in 2022. So far there are over twenty vintage and classic clubs from all over Ireland registered to display – as well as the local Western Veteran & Vintage Motor Club and Kiltulla & District Vintage Club, there are clubs travelling from as far away as Carlow, Limerick, Kilkenny, Dublin, Meath, Louth and Donegal. Making the trip west for Classic Fest, these clubs will bring with them an array of cars and exhibits, including displays of individual marques like the Ford Cortina, Jaguar, Ford Capri, Toyota, TVR as well as the Mercedes-Benz Club, who have the largest stand space reserved for fifty cars.

With only a few days to go before the gates of Galway Racecourse open to welcome hundreds of vintage and classic cars, tractors, motorbikes, steam engines and much more, it already promises to be the biggest shows held in Ireland in 2022.

This weekend marks the highlight of Captain Thomas O’Connor’s golfing year when he hosts his Captain’s weekend at Athlone Golf Club.

Athlone Golf Club has confirmed that the annually hosted Open Week, certain to attract a wealth of golfers from the Midlands region and beyond, will commence on Saturday, May 28 and conclude on Bank Holiday Monday, June 6.

Matches continue to arrive thick and fast for Salthill Devon, who are away to Liffey Wanderers in the first round of the FAI Cup on Sunday.

Years ago, there was neither an independent community orchestra nor a musical instrument teaching system in Galway city or county. A handful of schools, mostly run by religious orders, taught a small range of instruments and would put a small orchestra together for their annual school show or operetta, their music teachers being very influential in passing on a love of music to their pupils.

Loughrea received a welcome jobs boost this week with the news that 60 jobs are to be created with the opening of the latest offering from the Plaza Group in the area.

Salthill Devon advanced to the quarter-final stage of the FAI Junior Cup following a dramatic penalty shootout success over Fairview Rangers in Limerick on Sunday.

Victor Collins' in form Salthill Devon outfit face a tough away clash against Limerick's Fairview Rangers in the last 16 of the FAI Junior Cup on Sunday afternoon.