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Rail passengers from Galway will be using bus services between the city and Athenry this weekend.

Forest Catering was created in 2003 by Paul Madden. It is based between Athenry and Oranmore. The company started small with the creativity to produce delicious, wholesome, food, and value for money, and grew to be a leading catering company in the west of Ireland.

WHILE THE headliners include Elvis Costello and Imelda May, Galway bands and a stage hosted by the Róisín Dubh, will feature strongly at this year’s Westport Festival.

In a statement this week, Senator Lorraine Higgins has urged for swift action to be undertaken in alleviating the traffic congestion which has been caused by train delays at Athenry. She insists that “Irish Rail must adopt an imaginative solution to the persistent traffic chaos that ensues when trains are delayed at Athenry. Unless something is done immediately, the town will lose significant trade to neighbouring areas.” When trains on the Galway/Limerick and Dublin/Galway are delayed on the single track system, it has a significant knock-on effect, not just on arrival and departure times for passengers.”

Galway Olympian Paul Hession was on hand to present the winners of this year’s Fields of Athenry 10km.

Dep Paul Connaughton has welcomed the announcement that €150,000 is to be provided in lottery funding for the construction of an extension to the Western Alzheimer’s Home in Athenry.

It was a rocky week for the West on Track campaigners who seemed to have taken a severe blow on Tuesday when the Minister for Transport, Tourism, and Sport Leo Varadkar was quoted in The Irish Times as saying that the line would not be extended from Athenry to Tuam.

Half of the Department of Agriculture staff currently working in Galway city are moving to new premises in Athenry, a move which a local TD says will save €1 million in rent.

The campaign is on to get ‘Tiny Dancer’ the single recorded by a group of musicians and singers to raise funds for Galway girl Lily-Mae Morrison, to the top of the charts for Christmas. The single will be launched at the opening of the Galway Continental Christmas Market tomorrow (Friday) and Lily-Mae, who is suffering from a rare childhood cancer, will turn on the Christmas lights at the event with the help of singers Paddy Casey and Declan O’Rourke, and Anthony Ryan, chairman of the Galway City Business Association.

The Galway football Masters (over 40s) are back on the road again and they recorded their second win of the season in Longford on Sunday when beating Antrim by 2-09 to 0-5.