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There was a time when my heart was set on living in the West. As a child I was brought on holiday to Connemara and it took my breath away. The Twelve Pins, Clifden, Lough Corrib and Kylemore, the mountains and the valleys were all places of profound beauty that touched my soul.

THE THREE Tenors return to Galway and Clifden playing the Station House Hotel, Clifden, on Sunday August 3 at 9pm and the Town Hall Theatre, Galway, on Saturday August 9 at 8pm.

Local coach operator Citylink has announced that is will cease to operate its Cork to Galway via Limerick route early next month.

A stylish autumn fashion show in aid of The National Council for the Blind of Ireland will be held in The Ardilaun hotel on September 23. Tickets for the night include a wine reception, entrance to the show, and inclusion in the draw for spot prizes at the end of the show. Tickets cost €35 each and all money raised from the show will go to NCBI.

A troubled teen who threatened to slit the throats of gardai in Clifden will spend 12 months in prison.

On February 28 1879 a desperate row erupted on peaceful Omey Island, near Cleggan, Connemara. The local curate Fr William Rhatigan burst into the local Protestant schoolhouse, run by the Irish Church Mission Society, saying he was ‘in search of his straying sheep’*. An argument broke out between him and the Rev William Lindsey MacNeice, the schoolmaster. Blows were struck. Who struck the first blow will forever be in dispute. But the evidence of Fr Rhatigan’s temper and strength is testified by the fact that it took the combined efforts of MacNeice, aided by his wife, his daughter Charlotte, his young son John Frederick, and two teachers from Claddaghduff, Messrs Davis and Coursey, to force him backwards out of the schoolhouse.

CLASSICAL MUSIC to thrill the ears and readings from poems and novels which will stir the imagination are set to be the order of the day at the Clifden Community Arts Week which begins tomorrow.

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An illustrated talk — The Story of an Original Clifden House — by Breandan O'Scannail, will be held on Thursday January 15 at The Atlantic Coast Hotel at 8pm.

Gardaí have renewed their appeal for information on a teenage boy from Connemara who has been missing for the past week and a half.