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PERSONAL BELONGINGS of IRA volunteer Seamus Quirk and Fr Michael Griffin; Bronze Age artefacts from Dún Aonghasa; the myths of the River Corrib; and an exploration of Gaelic Ireland - there is a wealth of local and Irish history to be experienced at the Galway City Museum.

Heskin auctioneers presents this four bedroom, two bathroom, bungalow in Menlo to the market. This property offers the best of both worlds, quiet countryside living located just a stone's throw from the hustle and bustle of the city centre. Enjoy the surrounds of Menlo Castle and Menlo Pier which are on the doorstep.

John Henry Bailey was a well known business man in Galway at the close of the 19th century. He was a rate collector and an auctioneer but was better known for his selling and repairing Morris cars from his garage on the east side of Eyre Square, on a site now remembered as the former Odeon Hotel. He also had the distinction of being the first man in Galway to ride a bicycle.

This attractive three bedroom semidetached property is situated in a quiet cul de sac in Newcastle close to NUIG, UHG, and the banks of the River Corrib.

This attractive three bedroom semidetached property is situated in a quiet cul de sac in Newcastle close to NUIG, UHG, and the banks of the River Corrib.

THE CONFINEMENTS of the lockdowns and the severe limits on travel have restricted us all to our own localities, and for many that means passing by the same places, the same objects, and the same sights.

DNG Maxwell Heaslip and Leonard has recently been favoured with the executor sale of one of the most impressive detached properties to come to the Galway market in recent years. Located on Chestnut Lane, one of the city’s’ most desirable addresses, this magnificent property is being offered for sale by private treaty and is sure to catch the attention of all those who have even the slightest interest in modern Irish architecture and design. Built in 1974, this single storey residence was designed by renowned architects Scott Tallon Walker, which has a reputation for modernism, and is responsible for a multitude of important civic and private buildings throughout Ireland.

Pádraig Pearse’s first visit to Connemara was in 1903, when he was 24 years of age. He was sent there by Conrad na Gaeilge, a nation-wide Irish language movement, then gaining momentum year after year, to examine a group of young teachers from the Ros Muc area, to see if they were fit to teach Irish. When this young romantic man, already with an image of an ‘Irish Ireland’ in his mind, stepped from the train at Maam Cross station, he had a life-changing realisation that this was ‘a little Gaelic kingdom of its own’.

Public consultations will be held within the next six weeks on a proposed €10 million flood defence scheme for The Claddagh and Galway city centre.

Irish Water working in partnership with the Galway City Council has commenced remedial works at the Long Walk which will improve water quality in the area, provide environmental benefits, and reduce the presence of wet wipes along the River Corrib.