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45 new jobs for Galway have been created at the newly opened Supermac's restaurant on the Tuam Road. The news is being viewed positively in the Galway area, with both full-time and part-time positions having been filled quickly. Located beside Monaghan Motors at the Tuam Road Roundabout, the restaurant is the 100th Supermac's restaurant to be opened in Ireland. The restaurant also offers a drive thru system, now making meals convenient for motorists throughout the day and night.

With a ready smile and a handshake for, well, practically everyone Pat Joyce has already become a familiar face at the Tuam Shopping Centre where the new Joyce’s supermarket opened recently offering customers more choice for their shopping needs with some of the best deals in town.

The Saw Doctors and Smyths Toys are joining forces this week in a novel scheme to raise funds for the Society of St Vincent de Paul this Christmas. Smyths Toys will donate one euro to St Vincent de Paul for every download of the new a cappella version of ‘Red Cortina’ by The Saw Doctors, which goes on sale from iTunes Ireland from today.

Joyce’s is to open its newest and most extraordinary retail store yet in Tuam, Co Galway, today Thursday at 12 noon, creating up to 50 jobs locally.

In the early years of the 20th century the Irish language increasingly was associated with poverty and backwardness. In the national school system, which was established in 1831, children had been beaten with what became known as a ‘tally stick’ if they were caught speaking Irish. Apparently every time a child was heard speaking Irish, a notch was cut on the stick, and the poor child received the same number of blows.

More resources and additional housing liason officers are needed to properly deal with the scourge of the anti-social behaviour problem throughout the county which is costing thousands of euro, that is according to Galway County Councillor Seán Canney.

The contract for the new M17/ M18 motorway between Gort and Tuam will be signed in January next year, according to Fianna Fáil Galway West TD Frank Fahey.

St Brigid’s v Killererin ( Tuam, Sunday 2pm)

A bus driver who came to the aid of students in a crash which claimed the lives of two men at the weekend has been praised for his quick thinking and “tremendous community spirit”.

The new Galway minor football manager for the 2011 season is to be announced tonight.