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For the second time in three years, Moycullen are county champions after defeating a gallant Salthill-Knocknacarra by 1-10 to 1-09 in Pearse Stadium on Sunday afternoon.

This weekend, Magnetti's Salthill is celebrating its first year in business. Over the past year brothers Sean and Marco Magnetti have brought a real touch of Rome to Salthill. The restaurant has seen remarkable success and is well-liked by both locals and visitors thanks to its authentic Roman “pizza al taglio” and breathtaking location on the Salthill Promenade overlooking Galway Bay.

Lenaboy Park has often been described as Salthill's secret garden, located just a short walk from the famous Salthill Promenade. It was once part of the original gardens of Lenaboy Castle on Taylor's Hill. Access is through large black gates situated between the old Warwick Hotel and Care Pharmacy/Morton’s Supermarket on Lower Salthill. On entering, there is a beautifully, landscaped park in the centre of the development, surrounded by a mixture of homes.

From Salthill to Sydney, Donegal to Dubai, Tipperary to Toronto, Darkness Into Light, the annual fundraising event organised by Pieta, who provide life-saving support services for those in suicidal distress and who have been bereaved through suicide, is back.

The founder of the Galway Advertiser, Ronnie O’Gorman was conferred with an honorary Doctor of Arts by NUI Galway at a ceremony held in the university on Tuesday.

Roy Carroll was one of the best known characters of Galway City. As a resident musician in many city hotels in Eyre Square, he was forever the epitome of decorum, bedecked in his bow tie. He was known to many as the man on the scooter which he rode through the city while often carrying an open umbrella, Roy sadly passed away in early winter, but it would be remiss of the city to not pay tribute to this remarkable character with an even more remarkable back story. Because Roy Carroll was his stage name, not many knew that he was born Peter Salvatore Armonde Louis Volpe.

Salthill Knocknacarra fell at the final hurdle when losing the AIB All-Ireland Intermediate Club Camogie Championship final by 5-14 to 2-6 to St Rynagh’s of Offaly in Croke Park on Sunday.

What is rare is beautiful, and in today’s property market it is certainly rare to find good quality bungalows for sale, especially in urban areas. It is a welcome addition to see that Sherry FitzGerald has just listed not one but four such properties.

It was Manchester airport, March 2008, and the flight to Galway had been delayed. Disgruntled passengers wandered through the departures terminal, concerned that Galway Airport might be closed by the time their plane landed. The complaints grew louder with the announcement of a further two hour delay. ‘All intending passengers’ were impatient and fed up. Well, almost all. There was one exception. In the midst of the unhappy throng, there was one person who would have more reason than most to complain and bemoan their predicament. Accompanied by her mother, Aileen, was a young Clarinbridge girl, who was returning home having just had re-construction surgery performed on her foot in a hospital in Sheffield. This was another staging post in what had been a series of operations carried out over a number of years in the English city. Amidst the doom and gloom of the delayed passengers, she stood out like a beacon of light. Smiling, friendly, warm and chatty, welcome to Katie O’Brien. She was twelve years of age.

More than 200 metres of cast iron piping in Lenaboy Gardens, Salthill, is due to be replaced in the coming weeks, as are more than 772 meters of piping in Dalysfort Road in January.