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DNG Maxwell Heaslip & Leonard is offering for a sale a wonderful two bedroom townhouse located in the much sought after area of Henry Street in the city’s West End. Currently rented, this mid-terrace property has recently been completely modernised throughout. No 25 has everything in terms of convenience and location, with all amenities right on the doorstep.

DNG Maxwell Heaslip & Leonard is offering for sale a wonderful three bedroom apartment located in the much sought after development of Newcastle Court. Located just opposite the entrance of UHG, Number 6 has everything in terms of convenience and location, offering every amenity on your doorstep.

Some of Galway’s top distance runners will be competing in what is traditionally the blue riband event of the athletics season, the National Cross Country Championships.

DNG Maxwell Heaslip & Leonard is offering for a sale a wonderful two bedroom townhouse located in the much sought-after area of St Brendan’s Avenue, Woodquay. An owner occupied mid-terrace property, No 60 has everything in terms of convenience and location, with all amenities on the doorstep.

DNG Maxwell Heaslip & Leonard is selling this large four bedroom detached residence in a mature, sought after, residential development only minutes from the city centre. No 8 Sylvan Heights is being offered to the market in good condition with a lot of its original features in place. Comprising c1,500sq ft of living space, the house has the benefit of oil fired central heating and PVC windows and doors. Outside to the front is a driveway with off street parking and to the rear is an enclosed garden.

The 309 Connemara emigrants, selected by their local clergy as suitable for a new life in America, arrived at Boston June 14 1880, 11 days after departure from Galway Bay on the SS Austrian, an Allen Line ship. The settling of ‘The Connemaras’, as they became known, was a new venture prompted by a Liverpool priest, Fr Patrick Nugent renowned for his ‘philantropic and truly patriotic exertions to alleviate the social conditions of his fellow countrymen in England’; and Archbishop John Ireland, of St Paul, Minnesota, who was already settling thousands of Irish Catholics who were trapped in the ghettoes of New York and elsewhere, on rich prairie lands.

The Simon Communities of Ireland have launched this year’s Simon Week, with a call to support the Simon Bill.

Ninety years ago, on August 2, 1931, the world famous long-distance swimmer, Miss Mercedes Gleitz, attempted to swim from the Aran Islands to Salthill. She did in fact manage to swim from Inis Meán to Spiddal in 18 hours 43 minutes, a distance of 18 miles as the crow flies, but it was estimated that with currents, etc, she covered a distance of nearly 30 miles. Two days later she gave a swimming demonstration in Salthill and presented a cup to the Chamber of Commerce to be presented to the school in the county which presented the greatest number of swimmers in relation to its student numbers. She stimulated a lot of interest in the sport, which had received a terrific boost just a few months before with the formation of two clubs, Blackrock Swimming Club and Galway Swimming Club. This guaranteed competition between the clubs and quickly helped raise standards.

As the smoke begins to clear from the havoc wreaked by the pandemic, the provision of housing will more and more take centre stage, with a huge mountain to climb before we get to a situation where supply comes even close to meeting demand.

Local Fianna Fáil TD and Minister of State, Deputy Robert Troy, has this week held discussions with senior officials in Bank of Ireland to discuss options for services in Moate into the future.