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The first Dominican Nunnery in Galway was founded 380 years ago, in 1644 in New Tower Street, now known as St Augustine Street. They were honoured with a visit from Papal Nuncio Rinucinni three years later. When the Cromwellians took over the city, the sisters were faced with two alternatives, to renounce their religious life and return to their families, or exile. They choose the latter and left for Spanish monasteries.

Gardai across the county are hunting the thieves who targeted three Connemara churches in the last week.

The Dominican Order was formally approved by Pope Honorius III in 1216, “to witness to the truth of the Christian Faith and to proclaim it at home and abroad”. St Dominic died in 1216, and in 1224 the Dominicans first came to Ireland. They came to Connacht, to Athenry, in 1241, and they finally arrived in Galway in 1488.

Athlone Church of Ireland Parish are hoping to raise awareness about Gender Based Violence (GBV) and Domestic Abuse by participating in the United Nations’ 16 days of activism against GBV and Domestic Abuse, starting on Saturday, November 26, at 12.45p.m.in St Mary’s Church, Church St. Athlone.

A Midlands couple exchanged wedding vows during the recent August bank holiday weekend, grateful for their shared good health, made possible by the groom donating a kidney to his bride two years ago.

The Ninth Annual International Gathering of the Mannion Clan is scheduled to take place in the clan’s ancestral village of Menlough in East Galway on the weekend of Friday August 12 to Sunday August 14, as National Heritage Week 2022 gets under way.

Buccaneers Rugby Football Club celebrate a hugely successful season when their annual awards presentation ceremony takes place on this Saturday, May 14, in the Shearwater Hotel, Ballinasloe.

Six local heritage projects have received a funding boost under the Built Heritage Investment Scheme, it has been confirmed.

Churches burgled in spate of county break-ins