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‘Faith In Challenging Times’ is the theme of this year's Galway Cathedral Novena which takes place March 6-14.

We have two photographs today of groups from Our Lady's Boys' Club. Firstly, a club rugby team that made history by winning the Connacht Junior League for the first time in 1959, and secondly, some club members taken on the annual camp in Lough Cutra Castle, c1956.

The race for Frank Fox is now hotting up after a twelve-week group stage.

Ask anybody in Ireland about Liam or Sam and the chances are they will know you are referring to the trophies presented to the All-Ireland senior hurling and football champions, but what about the 2,000 other pieces of GAA silverware around the country, how many of us know the stories of these cups, how they came into existence or how they receive their names?

The Galway Senior football Championship starts to hot up this weekend with the clash of several title hopefuls.

This year’s draws for the senior, intermediate and junior Galway football club championships have been made with all groups in each of the three grades boasting a round-robin formula.

Brendan O’Connor’s Galway United U19s secured a valuable 4-2 away win over UCD on Sunday.

My earliest memory of Jim was of him building his house near us in Salthill. He had a small corrugated iron shed he lived in while working there. We local working men, all of us about six or seven years old, decided he needed a hand, so we went to “help” him, moving sand and mixing cement, etc. We were obviously a complete distraction and a nuisance but he was a gentle man. He would sit us down beside his shed, give us a slice of bread and jam, and then frighten the life out of us telling us ghost stories. A very nice way of getting rid of us at the same time as vastly improving the efficiency level of the amount of work being done on site.

Corrib Rangers host Tuam Celtic in a critical Galway FA premier division fixture on Saturday afternoon.