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Benny Byrne and Stephen Deveney often met in Cooke’s Bar for a pint and they invariably ended up wondering about the possibility of starting up a credit union in the Shantalla area. They were greatly encouraged by Nora Herlihy, a Cork lady who had done a great deal to spread the credit union idea. So they wrote a letter to the Galway Observer inviting interest in their idea. They got one reply, from Jack Phelan in Ashe Road. They eventually organised a meeting for the formation of a study group in Benny’s house at 20 Shantalla Place on September 26, 1963.

The commercial market throughout Galway city and the west of Ireland has proven to be resilient throughout 2023. In the first quarter of the year, the commercial market stabilised after an unprecedented 2022 which saw some major challenges as a result of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. What began as a steady start in 2023 turned out to be one of the most active within the commercial section of O’Donnellan & Joyce in recent years, regardless of rising interest rates and market uncertainty.