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The Ballyhea-Charleville bondholder protest group will visit Galway on Saturday as part of a western tour of the country.

A tight-knit community was plunged into mourning this week following a fatal road traffic accident at the weekend which claimed the lives of two-year-old girl and her three-month-old sister.

O’Donnellan & Joyce has announced its winters auction which will see the company place 13 properties under the auction hammer.

Dusty Banjos, the trad band and music session organisers, will hold a major 10th Birthday Session on Monday October 22 in The Western Hotel, Prospect Hill, from 9.30pm.

Sinn Féin will hold Irish language classes in the office on 70 Prospect Hill, beginning next Monday at 7pm.

There can be few streets in this country that are as well documented as St Bridget’s Terrace. It was built 100 years ago on St Bridget’s Hill. The hill overlooked the town and was of great strategic and military importance. Both the Cromwellian and Williamite armies camped there when attacking Galway. During the 17th century, the hill was known as ‘Gottyganavy’. In 1710 the name had evolved to ‘Knocknegany’ and on Logan’s 1818 map of the city, it is depicted as Cnoc na Gainimhe (the Hill of Sand, or Sandpit Hill).

The crowd witnessed the first signs that things maybe starting to recover in the property market when O’Donnellan & Joyce’s monthly auction was packed to capacity with a large number of investors and owner occupiers bidding on the 14 properties which were sold under the hammer. The belief within the 400 capacity crowd was that now is the time to re-enter the market with properties now starting to give an excellent return at a very low cost base.

Almost 40 per cent of households in the Galway County Council region have yet to pay the controversial household charge, according to figures released by the local authority this week.

As St Columba’s Credit Union start preparations to celebrate their upcoming 50th Anniversary next year, they take a look at where it all started. On February 9 1963, with nine crowns, (€3.43) St. Columba’s Credit Union was the first credit union formed in Galway City and County and the second in Connacht.

William Joseph JC Bond (1833-1926) was a landscape and marine painter of the Liverpool School who was much influenced by Turner, and in the 1850s and 1860s, by the Pre-Raphaelites. His work features in a number of museums and galleries. He came to the west of Ireland on a number of occasions, we know one of his paintings was titled “Near Oranmore” and he also painted “The Galway Coast” in 1872. Our main image today is of an oil painting he did of Woodquay in 1850, and the second is a detail from that painting. He may have taken some artistic licence, but his picture underlines the importance of early artworks as historical documents in an era before photography reached Galway.