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Gardaí are investigating a number of thefts which occurred in the city in the last week.

Traffic congestion in the Newcastle area is likely to ease somewhat next week with the completion of works on University Road. However works on the Quincentenary Bridge, the main artery across the city and the main bottleneck during this week’s peak time congestion, are due to continue until mid-October.

A man who was agressive towards a number of students, putting them in fear, was fined €250 at Galway District Court this week.

The Government has announced that Galway will be the beneficiary of from four new city traffic and road improvements as part of the jobs initiative. The €800,000 investment has been allocated from a €15 million fund for smarter travel and public transport projects.

Unemployment and financial pressure led to a man, who had never before been in trouble with the law, committing a spate of break-ins throughout Galway and selling the stolen property on to second-hand shops in exchange for cash, the Galway District Court heard this week.

The Galway Festival of Science and Technology is the biggest single free event for youngsters in the West of Ireland and this week 20,000 tickets went out to schools all over the county for the festival exhibition, which is to be held at NUI, Galway on Sunday, November 21.

“The Galway Corrib Club held their annual regatta on the splendid river of the Corrib at Menlo. The day was as fine as ‘sunshine and pageantry’ could make it, and the ivy-mantled Castle of Menlo, the residence of Sir Thomas Blake, Bart, was decorated with flags of all nations, and waved gracefully in the breeze. There was not a ripple on the bosom of the lake unless what was created by the oars of the several beautiful little crafts which were constantly scudding up and down the river, freighted with some of Nature’s fairest daughters. There was a band in attendance and during the day discoursed some beautiful music. Great credit is due to the commodore, PT Grealy, Esq, and the members of the club for the satisfactory manner in which the whole arrangements were carried out. After five races between four oared gigs, outriggers and punts, the sports of the day terminated with a duck race, which was most amusing. At seven o’clock, the amusements terminated and the delighted spectators returned home, highly pleased with the day’s sport. Although there were places of refreshment, there was not a man to be seen the worse for liquor, so that the whole affair was a complete success.”

O’Donnellan & Joyce had the best auction of the year when it placed six properties up for sale and recorded four sales. Meanwhile the two remaining properties are under active negotiation.

O’Donnellan & Joyce has recorded the highest level of property sales by public auction this year with 14 properties going under the hammer and with a 90 per cent success rate recorded, which is the highest success rate of any private auctioneering company in Ireland.

Galwegians will be encouraged to leave their cars at home and get on their bikes for National Bike Week which runs from this Sunday until next.