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By popular demand, KATS, the award-winning local theatre company, is reviving its brilliant production of Tom Smith’s laugh-out-loud comedy, Drinking Habits.

Around the year 1930, there were about 400 residents in Salthill and it was attracting large number of visitors and tourists who came in the summer. There was provision at the time for the building of some 100 homes. The population was growing but there was no church in the area. Any resident or tourist who wished to go to Mass had to travel into the Jesuit Church or St Joseph’s, or out west to the chapel in Barna.

A new Tg4 documentary to be broadcast this month will give a personal insight to the life of Galway-native Redemptorist priest Tony Flannery who was suspended from public ministry by the Vatican in 2012 for expressing his support for women’s ordination, optional clerical celibacy, same sex relationships and his liberal views on homosexuality.

The Ireland Murugan Temple in Monksland recently hosted a special ceremony in celebration of Aadi Pooram, a famous festival celebrated by the Hindu community across the world.

Any idea why July 19 should be so important?

In the English city of Norwich, if you go to the outskirts of the city, you will find the small church of St Julian. I have just finished reading a new novel by Claire called I, Julian, a beautifully written imagining of the life and times of this celebrated English mystic.

There is historical evidence to show that the Jesuits were already in the city in the early 1600s, combining the work of ministry and education. In 1645, the Order set up their first college in Galway on Lower Abbeygate Street, where Powell’s shop is today. They were forced to leave the city by the Cromwellians, but they came back. They were forced to leave the city by the Williamites, but they came back. They had to close their Galway residence in 1768 due to a lack of manpower but they were persistent and came back again, and in 1859 they took over a house on Prospect Hill and the following year, set up a college in Eyre Square.

“There is always a way to resist.”

Fr Ambrose McNamee O.C.D. recently celebrated his 100th birthday when a Mass of celebration was held in the Carmelite Abbey Loughrea followed by dinner in The Lough Rea Hotel & Spa.

Then on August 17 the so called Maamtrasna Murders were committed. It was a crime that the local police dreaded not only because of its horrific nature, but because of the unlikelihood that the perpetrators would ever be found. Usually in a closeknit community, such as at Maamtrasna , the murderers would never be revealed, at least never to the police.