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The Galway senior hurlers will have five weeks without a competitive fixture ahead of their Leinster championship opener against Carlow in late April. They failed to defeat a dogged Limerick side in their final group game in Pearse Stadium.

Galway United Women brought the curtain down on their pre-season campaign with a creditable draw against Wexford in Maree last Saturday evening.

Galway found the going tough against a rampant Kerry outfit in the Lidl NFL division one final at Croke Park on the weekend.

Some 73% of workers in Ireland would feel a sense of responsibility to their family and/ or their employer which would drive them to endeavour to continue to work if they were to fall ill for an extended period of time, a new survey from Aviva Life & Pensions Ireland DAC (Aviva) has found.

On Saturday night, October 28 1922, a large force of anti-Treatyites made their way carefully and with as little noise as possible, into the silent streets of Clifden. They had already ‘taken’ Clifden the previous July, but were unceremoniously driven out by the National Army who approached Clifden by sea achieving total surprise.

Galway WFC got back to winning ways in the Women’s National League in Dalymount Park on Saturday when they defeated Bohemians 2-1.

Kerry secured a crucial 3-10 to 3-8 win at Galway's expense in the opening round of the TG4 All-Ireland Ladies' Senior Championship at St Brendan’s Park in Birr on Saturday.

After three losses in the Connacht championship campaign, twice at the hands of Mayo and also to Leitrim, many people were unsure what to expect when Galway were drawn against Dublin.

It is probable that if the coastal route had been chosen for the Clifden railway, rather than the Oughterard/ Maam Cross way, the line would still be viable today. The idea of the so-called ‘Balfour lines’, proposed by an enlightened chief secretary for Ireland, Arthur J Balfour, and given the go-ahead in the 1889 Light Railways (Ireland) Act, was to give far-flung towns and communities access to bigger markets, and to grasp the benefits of employment and opportunities.