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The oldest known Claddagh Ring, dating from the 1700s and created by Richard Joyce, a member of the Joyce family - one of the Twelve Tribes of Galway - is coming home to the city.

This week is Active Home week so we want to see everyone up and moving.

THE FIRST year of the new decade sees a new director at the helm of the Cúirt International Festival of Literature – Sahsa de Buyl. “If you were to look at a theme for this years’s event,” she says, “it would be the great and the good of Irish writing.”

Another weekend and another round of Premier League games completed. Frank Lampard's Chelsea secured a valuable win over Spurs in the race for fourth spot. The match was marred by VAR controversy as Giovani Lo Celso was inexplicably allowed to stay on the field after raking his studs down Cesar Azpilicueta's leg.

The second weekend in February sees championship action return for a Mayo side, with the shuffling around of the fixture calendar this year seeing the u20 championship move to a Spring start from the summer.

Management and set up: Kevin O’Brien is Corofin’s manager, but he will be the first to credit everyone involved in this set-up - coaches, strength and conditioning coach, dietician, stats team, and many more. Corofin are a most professional club outfit and it shows on the pitch, while off the pitch chairman Michael Ryder is credited with organsing the necessary funds, helped by club treasurer John Raftery and and secretary Jimmy McHugh.

Athlone Town have appointed Adrian Carberry to the role of first team head coach following the departure of Terry Butler from the position last weekend.

Aiming to enhance an amateur sporting prowess through professional attributes honed during his Australian Rules Football experience, Ray Connellan is seeking to make his mark within the senior gaelic football sphere, at both club and county levels.