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Ability West has launched its 60th anniversary celebrations with a series of events across the communities it serves in Galway city and county, with more events planned over the summer.

Ability West has launched its 60th anniversary celebrations with a series of events across the communities it serves in Galway city and county, with more events planned over the summer.

Knowledge of how to read the sea is a rare gift. Patrick Oliver, one the last of the Claddagh fishermen, who once had a fleet of 200 boats in the bay, carries on the family tradition successfully catching lobster and crab. Patrick knows the local coastal waters like few others. When on Thursday morning August 13 2020, he heard that the two young women, Sara Feeney (23) and Ellen Glynn (17), who had set out from Furbo beach on their inflatable paddle boards the evening before, were still missing, he phoned his brother Dave who had been out all night on the Galway lifeboat searching.

Members of the Mayo Food and Drink Network packed out Café Rua in Castlebar for the networking event entitled The Mayo Table - Mayo on the Menu.

Katie Lally from Ballintubber, has released her debut children’s picture book A Spectacular Story from the Future. The proud author and illustrator is delighted to announce her books are now on sale locally in Eason stores in Ballina and Castlebar, The Castle bookshop in Castlebar, Corrigan's in Ballintubber and McLoughlin's in Westport and available online at Amazon.

Diamonds are forever for the Miss Ireland organisation as this year marks the 75th Diamond Jubilee year of the competition with plans in place for the largest and most spectacular event to mark the occasion at the Royal Theatre in Castlebar on August 19 where an attendance of 1500 is expected.

Two transplant recipients from Athlone, together with family and friends, gathered at the scenic Burgess Park in Athlone, on the banks of the River Shannon, for a photocall to highlight the Irish Kidney Association’s third virtual Run for a Life (www.ika.ie/runforalife), a family fun run which will culminate on Saturday, May 28.

Two Galway schools have been rewarded for encouraging sustainable travel to school.

Three Galway primary schools have been named top of the class in a national competition showcasing randomised trials.

Mayo's first round qualifier opponents will be known after the draw on Radio One next Monday morning. We will all be eagerly tuned in to see who Mayo get drawn against as there are teams in there that could easily send us packing out of the championship for 2022.