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It’s Galway Hurdle day and the excitement of getting back to the racetrack has gone to Paddy Power’s head.

AUGUST 22 2021 will mark the 99th anniversary of Béal na Bláth and the death of one of the most significant figures in modern Irish history - Michael Collins.

The achievements of two-long standing Galway Hibernians coaches, Paddy Connolly and Joe O’Reilly, were celebrated by the Mayor of Galway City, Cllr Mike Cubbard at a socially distanced Mayoral reception in Leisureland this week.

This August, double Olympic medal Winner Paddy Barnes will hop into a wheelchair to take on Galway comedian Stevo Timothy in this charity bash in aid of the Irish Wheelchair Association.

Because most people in Brigid Kavanagh’s farming community near Strokestown, Co Roscommon, did not have a radio in September 1939, no one knew that war was declared between Britain and Germany until some time later.

In the early hours of Friday April 21 1916, two days before the Easter Rising was scheduled to begin, a German submarine surfaced off the Kerry coast, and three men set out for the shore in a small dinghy. On board were Sir Roger Casement, and two other men Robert Monteith and Daniel Bailey. As they neared the shore the dinghy capsized, and the men arrived on Banna Strand in Tralee Bay, drenched and exhausted.