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A new reading programme to encourage children to read has been launched in Galway.

Libraries across Galway will close this Thursday evening, in order to facilitate the installation of a new national computer system.

In the 1600s trade tokens were given out by the Crown and were used as a royal licence to do business. If you were a trades or business merchant, you had to obtain this token. Some had dates on them and some had not. In Galway city and county there were 43 merchants listed in the period 1653-1679. By 1680, many of these tokens were replaced by the halfpenny copper coin.