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A city based order of nuns will celebrate 40 years in Galway at a special event at the Menlo Park Hotel on Friday at 8pm.

Two communities in west and north Mayo were left reeling this week after the tragic deaths of two men in their communities.

About 18 years ago when I was working in The Tuam Herald, word came to us that there had been an attempt to bomb the World Trade Centre. The plan involved parking a truck below the North Tower, near one of its corner crutches. The intention was to bring down one tower, possibly into the other, and kill thousands of people. The plan did not work, but unfortunately seven people were killed and thousands received varying degrees of injuries. The reason there was a Tuam connection is because there was a local woman who was working on one of the towers. Ann Marie McHugh came from a well-known local family — her parents Padraig and Margaret ran the Town Hall Tavern in the heart of the town — so news of her terror on that occasion was a story of considerable local interest. On the phone from New York (because there was no email or internet in those days), she told me how, as an asthmatic, she was terrified as she had to descend 80 flights of stairs to make it out from the smoke-filled building. It took her hours to make her way down the darkened stairwell and she spoke of her relief reaching the ground and seeing the light through the smoke.

Week II

A bus driver who came to the aid of students in a crash which claimed the lives of two men at the weekend has been praised for his quick thinking and “tremendous community spirit”.

The funeral is to take place today [Friday] of the 19-year-old victim of a road traffic collision which occurred outside Delvin on Tuesday this week.

Tragedy struck a Gowran family this week when 17-year-old Shane Breen was killed in a horrendous road accident on the N9 near Paulstown in Co Kilkenny in the early hours of Sunday.

Pictured at the launch of the Heritage Council’s, ‘Significant Places of Public Worship Grant’ for St Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny are, Trevor Stacey from the Representative Church Body of the Church of Ireland; Michael Starrett, chief executive of the Heritage Council; and Fr Paddy Jones of the Catholic Church’s Sacred Art and Architecture Committee.

The Little Sisters of the Assumption will hold a fundraising night on Saturday May 16 at the Greyhound Stadium, College Road, at 7pm.

Eight locations across the county, including the aforementioned dyke, will host just some of the 1,000 events taking place nationwide for Heritage Week between August 22-30.