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An Ahascragh priest is set to bring a defamation case against state broadcaster RTÉ in the High Court next month.

Ballinasloe is this week preparing for the annual Ballinasloe October Fair and Festival, which gets under way in the town this weekend.

A priest based in Ahascragh is among a number of clerics facing investigation following claims made in a Prime Time Investigates documentary earlier this week. The programme alleged that he raped a girl and fathered her child while serving as a missionary in Kenya nearly 30 years ago.

As the who’s who receive their invites there will be one Galwayman who will be making an impact at the upcoming royal nuptials by helping Prince William’s bride-to-be, Kate Middleton, turn a few heads in one of his creations.

Galwegians contesting the General Election are not just standing in Galway. At least six people from the county will be running in constituencies outside their native county.

THE ARTIST Ben Maile will give a painting demonstration in The Kenny Gallery, this Saturday at 2pm, with all proceeds going towards Cancer Care West and the GSPCA.

Ahascragh-Caltra have won the Galway Intermediate Camogie Championship after beating Mountbellew-Moylough in the county final recently.

Ahascragh-Caltra intermediate camogie team won the Connacht Intermediate Championship final on Sunday, beating Four Roads of Roscommon, by 0-10 to 1-5. The game went to extra time after the sides finished level 0-8 to 1-5.

A 20-year-old NUI Galway commerce student was crowned Queen of Ballinasloe Fair at a gala evening at the Carlton Shearwater Hotel, Ballinasloe, at the weekend.