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IT IS 1988 and all eyes are on the western skies. Wide-eyed, wild yet innocent, they watch the jetstream trails over Brandon Mountain. Soon they will be up there on one of the planes bound for a new life across the Atlantic. Big dreams, work hard, get rich, and someday maybe...if things get better they will come back home again.

IT IS 1988 and all eyes are on the western skies. Wide-eyed, wild yet innocent, they watch the jetstream trails over Brandon Mountain. Soon they will be up there on one of the planes bound for a new life across the Atlantic. Big dreams, work hard, get rich, and someday maybe...if things get better they will come back home again.

Hundreds of Cookes from around the world are expected to descend on Galway for the Cooke Family Gathering which will be taking place in the Ardilaun Hotel from Friday October 4 to Sunday October 6.

ON THE night of September 17 1940, the cruise liner SS City Of Benares was part of a convoy sailing across the Atlantic from England to Canada. On board were 406 people including 90 children, aged from five to 15, being evacuated from wartime Britain.

Living and working on the family farm all his life, Claregalway native Oisín Kenny has always had a passion for quality flavoursome foods grown without the use of chemicals, pesticides, and preservatives.

Undiscovered prodigies in Westmeath will now have an outlet to shine with the launch this week of the JUMP (Junior Undiscovered Maths Prodigies) maths programme by the Minister of State for Training and Skills, Ciarán Cannon.

NEWFOUNDLAND HAS been described by historian Tim Pat Coogan as “the most Irish place in the world outside of Ireland”.

The links between Ireland and Canada were celebrated in the twinning of County Galway town Athenry with Renews-Cappahayden in Newfoundland.

More than 50 heart attack patients have been transferred by helicopter to Galway University Hospitals (GUH) in the past six months.

“Thousands are sailing, Again across the ocean, Where the hand of opportunity, Draws tickets in a lottery,” goes the second chorus from The Pogues’ song ‘Thousands are Sailing’ from 1988. While that song has its basis in the emigration history of the past, it is pretty relevant today with the most recent release of information from the Central Statistics Office.