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Brazilian students at Athlone Institute of Technology (AIT) gave their fellow students a sample of Brazilian life and culture with carnival celebrations on campus on February 11.

Irish people are being advised to take appropriate precautions if visiting Central and South America and the Caribbean. The advice comes in the wake of the World Health Organisation’s declaration of the zika virus as a public health emergency of international concern.

As we come to the end of the Walter Macken centenary, we thought it appropriate to reprint the only known piece of poetry that he wrote. It was first printed in 1963 in Criterion, a UCG magazine that was edited by Kevin Brophy at the time. It is homage, ómós if you like, to an old fisherman and reflects Macken’s love of fishing, of the Corrib, and of his understanding of people. The photograph of himself and his wife Peggy was taken in the garden of their home Gort na Gainiv near Oughterard c1960.

O’Donnellan and Joyce’s next auction which take place tomorrow (Friday) at at 2pm in the Harbour Hotel, Galway, is set to attract the highest numbers of online viewers to date.

O’Donnellan and Joyce’s next auction, which will take place this Friday November 13 at 2pm in the Harbour Hotel, Galway, is set to attract the highest numbers of online viewers to date.

Galway is famous worldwide for its aquatic diversity, oysters, seafish, salmon, trout, pike and many more. For more than 800 years Irish Monks cultivated many species of fish. For the first time in the West of Ireland you can keep many species of marine and freshwater fish, invertebrates and corals in your own home or business.

THE FOURTH annual Why Not? Adventure Film Festival, a day of screenings of documentaries on mountain climbing, trekking in wild and remote corners of the globe, human endurance, extreme sports, and the human thirst for adventure, returns to Galway this weekend.

Andy Hopper, Professor of Computing Technology at Cambridge University, flew his single engine six seater Cessna Centurion 210 aircraft from his farm strip in Cambridge, UK, together with his bicycle, to Lough Conn Airfield at Cloghans on Saturday September 5 and spent the weekend cycling along the Wild Atlantic Way. 

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