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I wonder would the following story still happen in Galway today. It happened in more innocent times, in the early 1960s. A very upper class gentleman, Major Woodfall Murphy, rented Bermingham House, the great 18th century pile once owned by the barons of Athenry, on the outskirts of Tuam. The genuinely snobby Lady Molly Cusack Smith, who owned the pile, was only too glad with the promised extra lolly. To the outsider it all felt hunky-dory: One snob helping another.

Coláiste Néifinn is a newly founded Irish summer college in Castlebar for 12 to 18-year-olds. This college aims to bring life to our native language outside the Gaeltacht. The co-ordinators are two local Irish teachers, assisted by experienced teachers from other schools. All teachers have taught in several Gaeltacht colleges, and bring a lot of experience to Coláiste Néifinn.

This photograph was taken in the early 1940s and shows a happy group of children in Sickeen. The wall at their backs was the boundary wall of St Brendan’s National School. In the background on the left are the backs of houses which fronted on to St Brendan’s Road. They were occupied by the Lillis family, the Lohan family, the Molloys – home of ‘Five Goal Molloy’ aka Sonny, Maurice O’Connell who worked in the post office, Jim Redington who later became Mayor of Galway, and Tom Walsh who was a teacher in St Brendan’s School.

OVER THE last 13 years, British author David Mitchell has produced a series of stunning novels such as Ghostwritten, number9dream, Cloud Atlas, and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet.

1. Change your name to Irish….. Calling all James, Jennifers, and Marys - change your name to Séamus, Sinéad and Máire… Try to find out your surname ‘as Gaeilge’ — Ó, Ní, Uí, Mac, Iníon, etc. If you need a helping hand contact [email protected]

Just in time for Christmas Kiltoom Drama Group are preparing to stamp their mark on the festive season as they finalise rehearsals for their exciting forthcoming production Not Now Darling a tale of extramarital high jinks written by Ray Cooney and John Chapman.

During the boom years of the Celtic Tiger, architects, engineers, and anyone involved in design and construction were so busy that there wasn’t time to think. Although that frenetic activity has stopped, it is not all doom and gloom, as one benefit is that there is now time to look at the efficiency of the process and in particular, the role of design software.

Two schools from Mayo have qualified for the national finals of the F1 in schools technology challenge.

A team from Westmeath beat off stiff competition in the F1 in Schools regional finals to make it through to the national finals in April. The Colts from Marist College, Athlone, will battle it out against 23 other teams from around the country for the title of F1 in Schools Champions 2009. At the regional finals, another team from Westmeath, Team Dynamo from Columba College, Killucan, won the award for the Fastest D-Type Car.

A MEDICAL devices group based in Ballybrit has raised $17.3 million (€12.4 million) in funding to launch the company’s first product — a coronary stent designed to prevent blockages of smaller arteries feeding the heart.