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A FIELD trip to the Marconi radio station in Derrigimlagh, Clifden, has inspired a new exhibition, You Are Here, which opens this evening [Thursday April 2] in the Galway Arts Centre.

The Connacht Property Auction team is inviting entries for its next auction on April 23, which will be held in The Menlo Park Hotel, Galway.

A short movie featuring celebrities enjoying Clifden’s Abbeyglen Castle Hotel has gone viral after being shown on the famous screens in New York’s Times Square. Ryan Tubridy, Brendan Grace, Mary Kennedy, Sharon Shannon, Tony Tormey and the late Tony Fenton star in I’m a Celebrity Get Me In There promoting the historic Connemara Manor House Hotel to New Yorkers.

Two more Speak Outs have been arranged as part of a public engagement campaign in Galway’s bid to win the European Capital of Culture 2020 designation. Following the success of the first two city Speak Outs a third event will take place in the county at the Clifden Station House Hotel on Thursday 26th March 2at 7pm.

Make scenic Connemara the setting for your family break. Set around the old Clifden railway station, the Clifden Station House Hotel is one of the most unique accommodation options Galway has to offer.

That great observer of landscape Tim Robinson reminds us that Connemara is full of saints. Perhaps there isn't a saint in the place today, but they were certainly there in profusion in earlier times. Looking around him from the heights of Errislannan, near Clifden, Tim observes that practically every one of the headlands and islands that he sees has its saint. There is St Roc at Little Killary, St Colmán on Inishboffin, St Ceannanach at Cleggan, St Féichín in Omey and High Island, and all the saints in the tangled archipelagos east of Carna, Bearchan, Breacán, and Enda; and the obscure Mocán or Smocán of Barr an Doire near An Cheathrú Rua, 'and finally the great St Colm Cille who has all the south Connemara coast under his protection...'

Mancunian songbird Denise Morgan will be performing at the Station House Hotel in Clifden on Saturday February 14, at 9.30pm. Guests and visitors to the hotel during this St Valentine’s weekend will enjoy a night filled with original love songs and a selection of stunning covers from the talented songwriter, who is currently appearing on series 4 of RTÉ One’s The Voice of Ireland.

Clifden golfer Timothy Hickey is celebrating a hole-in-one during a recent club competition at Connemara Golf Links.

Gardai are continuing their investigations following a fatal crash in Connemara earlier this week.

Frank McCurry and Tom Frawley of GMIT, whose radio heritage work has featured on the BBC Coast series, will give a talk at 7pm on Wednesday February 11 in NUI Galway on radio and the Clifden Marconi Station as well as a demonstration of Morse Code, the first system used to send long-distant messages using electricity.