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A British MP has penned a song to remember the Mayo Famine victims, from Kiltimagh and Ballina in particular, who fled to the small town of Otley in Yorkshire in search of refuge during the Great Hunger in the mid 1800s.

Maurice Semple’s book Reflections on Lough Corrib has a very good section on the history of rowing on the river and lake. The first clubs were formed in the mid 19th century, and competitive rowing has been a feature of Galway life since. A number of pupils in Coláiste Iognáid came together in October 1934 to ask the school if it would consider setting up a Jes Rowing Club. Happily, it did, and thus began a history of great achievement which continues to the present day.

The continued unrest, murders, and large-scale protests as the Land War careered dangerously through the Irish countryside, led at last to some reform. William Gladstone’s Second Land Act of 1881 proposed broad concessions to the tenant farmer. But Parnell, the very effective leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party, was not satisfied. He said that tenants were still vulnerable to rent arrears and poverty resulting from poor harvests. He urged that the Act either accommodate these concerns, or be rejected.

Art exhibition Drowned Forest featuring the works of artists Eithne Ryan, Judith Bernhardt, Helen Card, Anne Harkin-Petersen, Jean McSorley, and Terri Mitchell opens in Tuar Ard, Moate tonight, Thursday October 9.

The Salthill Promenade, Grattan Road, and the Spanish Arch are at risk of flooding throughout the week from a combination of high tides and high winds.

Aoife Mannion and Ruth Gallagher from Our Lady’s Bower, Athlone took Boston by storm last weekend with their Junk Kouture designs Recircuitable and Pine-A-Coladas. Their dresses were two of eight designs chosen to represent Junk Kouture stateside at the iFest festival - a unique and exhilarating celebration festival of Irish culture, heritage, hospitality, and entertainment held in the Seaport World Trade Centre.

Revolutionary by nature and consumed globally, Chá Yi Tea is taking the Irish market by storm, with men and women nationwide brewing the benefits of an all-natural tea that helps to boost the metabolism and cleanse the digestive system to maximise weight loss. Chá Yi Tea is available from Therapie Clinic, which is struggling to keep up with demand.

The Hill of Uisneach in Loughnavalley is already deemed to be the mythological and sacred centre of Ireland, and now it’s in the running to become a United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) world heritage site.

A European title fight is the headline event at the Galway Black Dragon Kickboxing Club’s fight night on Saturday in the Menlo Park Hotel.

Progress on the River Clare drainage scheme in the Claregalway area is being delayed due to the uncertainty surrounding new legislation passed to comply with EU Directives.