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O’Donnellan & Joyce auctioneers has 67 properties going under the hammer on Friday July 20 at 12 noon in the Harbour Hotel, New Dock Road, Galway. Registration will be open from 11am. This auction has something for everyone and the selection is vast. The auction includes a host of Galway city and county properties that would be suitable for first time buyers, investors, and owner occupiers.

O’Donnellan & Joyce reported a strong turnout to the first week of open viewings after the launch of its Wild Atlantic Way July property auction.

The Algarve has something for everyone, tempting golf courses on which international tournaments are played, wonderful horse riding and tennis, as well as pretty much every watersport you can think of.

Galway is expected to be hit with a hosepipe ban as drought takes hold over parts of the city and county. News of the proposed ban comes after night time restrictions were enforced on many parts of the city and county during the week because of the hot weather and lack of rainfall in recent weeks.

Parents are being encouraged to make their views known about which body they want to see running Galway's new secondary school, and Minister Seán Kyne has declared his preference is that patronage should be awarded to Educate Together.

Mullery Auctioneers has brought to the market a spacious two bedroom apartment situated in Pembroke Court, just off Bishop O'Donnell Road.

O’Donnellan & Joyce returns with its fourth property auction of 2018, with a number of properties going under the hammer on July 20.

If you happen to cross Galway’s Wolfe Tone Bridge, spare a thought for the man whose name it carries, especially as this month - yesterday, June 20, to be precise - marks the 255th anniversary of Tone’s birth.

On April 1, 1954, 941 boys marched from the Bish National School, Nuns’ Island, and from the Old Mon in Market Street to their ultra-modern bright new school, St Patrick’s, which was situated at the corner of Lombard Street and Bridge Street. The new school was built on a site which had been the location of the Shambles Barracks, which was occupied by the British army for many years up until 1909.

Last month Galway Diary explored the sham legend that grew around the so-called ‘Empty frame’ on the wall of the Lynch’s Chapel, or Lady’s chapel, in the historic St Nicholas’ Collegiate church. The late Canon George Quinn pronounced that this was the very frame in which the Bishop of Clonfert, Walter Lynch’s sacred icon of the Madonna and Child once hung, before he was forced to flee just before the arrival of Cromwell’s soldiers in April 1652.