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Mairead Cunningham from Tirellan Heights, Galway has been promoted to Connaught accounts manager at leading Healthcare company Lifes2good which markets and distributes a wide range of natural health, beauty and lifestyle products including the Lifes2Good Magnetic Therapy, Viviscal, Painease, Voluptuo and Slender brands amongst others.

Galway is well known as one of Ireland’s leading cultural centres but tomorrow from 6pm, it’s going to go all out to encourage everyone to sample the arts in the city with the Galway Culture Night.

Galway people have been urged to be very very careful on October 3, because all of the city and county's emergency services will be out dancing.

Elderly people in the RAPID areas of Galway city are set to benefit from a the €100,000 funding announced this week for small-scale health and community projects.

Tony Joyce of O’Donnellan & Joyce has recently brought to the market two extremely attractive parcels of land located in the Drum/Moycullen/Oranswell area. The lands are to be offered for sale by tender and are being sold in one lot on Friday October 17 and all tenders are to be forwarded to the solicitors with carriage of sale DM O’Connor & Co, Cross Street, Galway.

Sarah Wairimu, who operates the children’s orphanage Dochas Nasamu near Kangari in Kenya, will be awarded an honorary arts degree in NUI, Galway on Tuesday October 21.

Maree Basketball Club has started the season on a successful note with two cup wins in major tournaments in Cork.

By its very nature the 35,000 mile Volvo Ocean Race that started from Alicante on Saturday attracts the hardiest of sailors. They are usually men with tough teak muscles and a hell of a lot of fortitude, capable of withstanding the roughest of seas in temperatures that can range from -5 to 50 Celcius.

Following a week fraught with continuing tension between protesters and Shell E & P Ireland and the undertaking of a hunger strike by Maura Harrington, a resolve in the contentious issue may have been attained when at lunch time Thursday SEPIL released a statement in which it confirmed that “the Solitaire will leave Killybegs today for a UK port where deep water berthing facilities are available”.

This September (Sunday 28) will see the first National Trails Day which is taking place across the country with everyone being encouraged to get out and hit a trail near you!