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A 13-year-old girl dreams of being an inventor. She’s not satisfied with the way the world is and she wants to do something about it, so she looks to her hero Leonardo Da Vinci for inspiration.

Plans for a vehicle only bridge in the city were presented by engineers from RPS consultants to city councillors at Monday’s city council meeting.

The election is well over and the posters of grinning candidates gone but the poster ties which held them up are still an eyesore on many lampposts and poles.

Alexander Nimmo made a survey of Lough Corrib almost 200 years ago in which he wrote the following: “The lake has 50 miles of shore, occupies 30,000 Irish acres and contains 1,000 acres of arable land in its isles, and contracts into a very spacious river about two and a half miles above Galway, which, flowing by the town, communicated with the Atlantic. The fall from the summit lake to the sea is considerable, but to the Wood Quay, above the town, it is trifling, and the river is in parts very shallow, running over a bed of rocks and hard gravel. It is not navigable from the sea to the Wood Quay, owing to the shallowness and rapidity of the water, and none but small boats can come down; but, unless in very dry seasons, it is thence navigable by boats drawing four feet of water and carrying from ten to twenty tons, with one square sail and four men, to Cong. They seldom sail unless before the wind, and though the lake has many islets and sunken rocks, the only serious difficulty in navigation is at Buachally Shoal about four miles up the lake, and at Newcastle. These shoals could be deepened for a small sum and the whole made to admit vessels of much greater magnitude. This fine navigation which extends about 30 miles, and into a seaport town, seems to deserve more attention than it has yet received. A good chart with soundings and sailing directions, should be published, the shoals or rocks cleared or beaconed, and a communication opened with the sea.”

A large-scale search operation, which had gone into its fourth day, ended yesterday morning following the grim discovery of the missing man’s body at the Claddagh Basin.

This photograph of the main entrance to Galway Gaol (facing the Salmon Weir Bridge) was taken in 1903. It was an imposing and intimidating building. The execution chamber was just over the main gate, and many prisoners perished there.

Gardaí were last night attempting to determine whether a body taken from the sea on Wednesday afternoon is that of 26-year-old Mayo woman Kathleen Davitt who has been missing for more than a week.

Gardai were last night attempting to determine whether a body taken from the sea yesterday afternoon is that of 26-year-old Mayo woman Kathleen Davitt who has been missing for more than a week.

Search and rescue teams continued their search yesterday for a 26-year-old woman from Louisburgh who reportedly fell from the Salmon Weir Bridge into the River Corrib in Galway on Tuesday evening.

A major search of Galway’s waterways was under way this week following reports that a woman had fallen into the river.