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Galway Rugby League will be well represented on All Ireland finals day with both the men and women's teams in action on Saturday.

BIGbin, the pay-as-you-go waste disposal service with over 30 locations across Ireland has jiust opened a new location in Galway. Members of the public can come along to the new location at Circle K, Newcastle Rd, Galway City, H91 YKF3 which the first in Galway, and dispose of two standard black bags of rubbish for €8 or two bags of recycling for €5.

Ninety years ago, on August 2, 1931, the world famous long-distance swimmer, Miss Mercedes Gleitz, attempted to swim from the Aran Islands to Salthill. She did in fact manage to swim from Inis Meán to Spiddal in 18 hours 43 minutes, a distance of 18 miles as the crow flies, but it was estimated that with currents, etc, she covered a distance of nearly 30 miles. Two days later she gave a swimming demonstration in Salthill and presented a cup to the Chamber of Commerce to be presented to the school in the county which presented the greatest number of swimmers in relation to its student numbers. She stimulated a lot of interest in the sport, which had received a terrific boost just a few months before with the formation of two clubs, Blackrock Swimming Club and Galway Swimming Club. This guaranteed competition between the clubs and quickly helped raise standards.

GALWAY COMMUNITY Circus is holding a variety of summer camps from July 5 to 25 for children, adults, and families.

Galway City Council will carry out consultation with local groups, residents, and stakeholders, about plans to carry out extensive, and ambitious, refurbishments at Leisureland and Salthill Park.

Youth Work Ireland Galway has been providing a free counselling service for young people from Galway City and Galway County since 2011. The counselling service for young people aged 12-21 years has supported almost 2,000 young people since then. The service based in Galway City, Tuam, Loughrea and Ballinasloe provides 16 hours counselling weekly, funded by the HSE, Tusla, fundraising and donations. Earlier this year we were very fortunate to receive funding from Pobal’s Community Resilience Fund, through the Children and Young People’s Services Committee, to extend the service to Connemara, Gort and Athenry.

Galway will once again host competitors in a major sailing event when the Round Britain and Ireland race takes place next year.

Galway WFC’s pre-season preparations continue with Billy Clery’s promising team facing Bohemians in a friendly at Maree on Sunday (2pm).

Some of Galway’s top elite athletes will compete in a series of indoor micro meets this weekend.

In 1951 Hastings Elliott Jephson was working in the ESB in Galway when he had the idea of setting up a hockey club in the city. He and his friend George Bevis decided to see if there was merit in this notion, so they simply went from door to door around town asking people if they would have any interest in playing the game of hockey.