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Five years ago today, this city and county was reeling from the shock that a young languages student had been attacked and murdered just 10 minutes away from the city centre. In the half decade since, the name of Manuela Riedo has become known in nearly every household in this region. More so than the dozen or so other people who has lost their lives violently in Galway city and county over the past decade or so. The memory of Manuela though has been kept strong by the randomness of the incident and the fact that Ms Riedo was but a few days into her trip to Galway. It was an incident that sent shockwaves through the region as a collective sense of shame and guilt was verbalised, as people rushed to protect the notion that Galway was a safer place to be after dark than any other. We now know that it was not, as several other serious fatal and non-fatal violent atacks in the city centre have since illustrated.

THE PATRICIAN Musical Society will stage the classic musical Guys’n’Dolls next year and is now holdings auditions for the production.

TRYING TO write about jazz is a bit like trying to paint Connemara. The subjects are so elusive that to describe it conclusively is nigh near impossible and the writer or artist is reduced to focusing on an individual moment that most responds to or echoes their personal or artistic talent.

Salthill Devon girls have qualified for the finals of Irish u-12 National Blitz.

Salthill-Knocknacarra were far too strong for a disjointed looking Killererin in the county senior semi-final last Sunday at Tuam Stadium, winning comprehensively on a scoreline of 3-10 to 0-10.

A guided beach wildlife walk will take place on Grattan Road beach, Salthill, this Saturday at 3.30pm and it is aimed at both adults and children.

The draft locations for the real time passenger information display terminals for Galway city have been announced with various bus stops in Eyre Square and the rest of the city included.

Would you like to change profession or give yourself the opportunity to increase your income? Do you have an interest in the fitness industry? If you have answered yes to the above questions then read on.

You can see from this turn of the century photograph why this area of Salthill would be known as Blackrock. Up until about that time there was a great tradition of fishing here. There was a small cluster of fishermen’s thatched cottages at Blackrock until the night of the Big Wind, when they were all literally blown away by the storm and the tide, forcing the occupants to move further inland.

The Galway Senior Football Championshp resumes on Sunday with two mouth-watering semi-finals.