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Two top local photographers have joined forces to spearhead a unique fundraising event which will benefit a local charity.

Apart from the profound influence that teachers had on their young students at Crumlin National School, Ballyglunin, Co Galway, the passing trains on the old Claremorris-Limerick line told them all the time of day, and the seasons of the year. The old school was located practically under the railway bridge. The train passed only yards from the classrooms. “We would wave out at the trains passing....” recalls Phil Forde, who stared school there when she was three years old in 1935. “There would be extra trains during the beet campaign. The beet would all go to the station in the horse and cart, and there would be about 20 wagons after the steam engine.”

Some 100 competitors battled it out over three days in the Connacht Open Tennis Championships.

O’Loughlin Gaels 2-12

There were very few industrial plants in Galway in the 1950s. Galway Textile Printers, known locally as the cotton factory, had just opened; there was the hat factory, and there were some small units around town, but that was it. Then the Lemass era arrived, and there was a change in government policy as the government began to actively encourage industries from abroad to locate here.

A special presentation is being made in honour of the 150th anniversary of an acclaimed scholar’s birth, who has been said to have “given Kilkenny its history” next week.

Canon Oliver Hughes, Corofin’s highly respected and much-loved parish priest for the past seven years, and former teacher and president of St Jarlath’s college, Tuam from 1972-2003, passed away on Tuesday morning.

There will be lots of family fun and entertainment to be had during this year’s Salthill Village Festival which will take place between August 21 and 22.

St Joseph’s GNS celebrated its centenary on Thursday June 24. There were well over 200 people in attendance at the celebration, which was held in the grounds of the school.

For years commuters on the N17 wondered if it would ever be ready, but this weekend, Claregalway Castle which has been lovingly restored will throw its gates open and invite all of us to attend what will be the first ever Galway Garden Festival.