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Pre-season set to resume shortly for local clubs

Amateur drama fans who have been starved of live performances for the past two years are set for a treat from tomorrow night (Friday March 11) when a selection of the country’s top groups compete in the Claregalway Festival of Drama.

One does not have to dig very deep into the archives to find evidence of wholescale corruption, pervasive nepotism, and general theft of public monies by public representatives and officials in nineteenth-century Mayo.

Galway-based researchers behind innovative projects to increase uptake for bowel screening and to make needle insertions less daunting for patients were among the big winners at the Irish Cancer Society Research Awards on Thursday.

The Irish Cancer Society is urging people to take the simple steps that can keep vulnerable cancer patients safe amid concerns over the Omicron variant.

The average price of a three bedroom semi-detached dwelling has risen again to €170,000.00, according to a national survey by Real Estate Alliance. Across the county, the average time taken to sell has fallen from four weeks to two, the Q3 REA Average House Price Index shows.

Robert O’Leary is a Kinsale native, who after 30 years of service in Eli Lilly was looking forward to his retirement and further pursuing his love of GAA and walking.

Back in Connemara for Christmas, which she insisted on calling Christ Mass, Ethel Mannin opens the door of her little cottage, located between Roundstone and Clifden, close to Mannin Bay. She has been away for some time. She lights fires in all three rooms, to drive away the musty smell and damp, and soon she is comfortable sitting by the window looking out at the sea, the mountains beyond. She was back to stay until restlessness, or some political challenge, calls her away again.

As a sense of uncertainty continues to pervade pertaining to the future of the hospitality industry amid the continuing presence of COVID-19 within the community, local pub proprietors have expressed their continued frustration as they strive for a return to a semblance of business normality as news emerged this week that the Government and NPHET will review their decision with regard to the reopening of relevant premises on August 31.

Oughterard residents lined the streets of the village on Friday to bid farewell to a well-loved local who was at the heart of the GAA.