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Fashionistas and dapper gents get racing-ready and join the team at the Salthill Hotel for the 2020 Galway Races Summer Festival from Wednesday July 29 through to Friday July 31 for its Paddock to Prom Race Week luncheons.

COVID-19 and the continuing restrictions means there will not be a Pride parade in Galway this summer, filling the city's streets with colour and joyfulness, but the need for advocacy, activism, and community spirit remains as important as ever.

We might be used of Hector, Ireland’s most famous intrepid traveller taking us to far flung lands all over the world but now like the rest of us he is in lockdown.

Despite fewer cars on the roads than ever before, the problem of people cycling on Salthill Promenade persists, an activity which is against the law and which also makes social distancing difficult.

In recent days, the AA Rescue service says that it has seen an increase in breakdown call-outs, with many instances of a car fault being caused by lack of use during the current COVID-19 restrictions. To help people stay safe at home and keep their car in running order, the AA Rescue team have put together some top tips to be aware of.

Galway is in an ideal situation to exit lockdown early and in my opinion we should be in a position to do so more quickly than other parts of Ireland.

THIS POEM was written over the June Bank Holiday weekend in 2008 and featured in my third poetry collection, Frightening New Furniture, which was published by Salmon in 2010.

THIS POEM is from my first collection, The Boy With No Face, which came out in 2005. If I remember right, I wrote it in 2000. It was inspired, or rather provoked, by walking down St Mary’s Road one evening.

Athlone Drug Awareness Group has launched a multimedia expression competition for teenagers and young adults aged between 12 and 20 years old.

Artists from 10 countries, and 29 counties in Ireland have contributed work to the INCOGNITO Art sale of 1,812 original pieces of art for the Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation.