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There are few places in Ireland where walking begins so effortlessly at the edge of a village and unfolds so quickly into something elemental and expansive as it does in Letterfrack. Sitting at the threshold of Connemara National Park, the village feels less like a starting point and more like a gentle invitation into landscape—one that shifts from quiet woodland to open mountain, from reflective shoreline to wind-cut summit, often within the space of a single afternoon.

Travel to the heart of Connemara from Galway City Centre in two hours, giving you plenty of time to hike Diamond Hill, brave the waters of the Atlantic for a dip. If it is a small village you are looking to explore, Oughterard, Clifden, and Letterfrack are among the many stops along the route, making it easy to hop off wherever you like.

A major fundraising challenge organised by the Boston ScientificGalway site saw over 200 employees climb both Croagh Patrick and Diamond Hill in a single day – raising over €100,000 for the National Breast Cancer Research Institute (NBCRI).

When Juliana Byrne climbed Diamond Hill in May, she achieved a lifelong goal and felt on top of the world. She had made two previous attempts but failed both times.

You reach the summit of Diamond Hill, or somewhere similar along the many spectacular locations on Galway's stunning coastline, and what you see takes your breath away. You want to capture the beauty of this sight before your eyes, and you reach for your camera. But, no matter what angle you look from, or how many photos you take, you cannot do justice to the view before you. The camera lens is not wide enough, your eyes barely are, and you realise the scene cannot be adequately captured.

Waiting outside the office of the Irish Times’ managing director, one might expect a snotty Moneypenny to usher you into a dark, wood-panelled study where a stern Judi Dench as M, in James Bond, will be enthroned at a leathered desk, waiting to receive, with a thousand-yard death stare.

Gary Leonard is the Clerk of Course for Corrib Oil Galway International Rally

Gary Leonard is the Clerk of Course for this year's Corrib Oil Galway International Rally.

Galway Community College (GCC), GRETB welcomed another delegation of Erasmus+ students and teachers from schools in Croatia and Spain, to Galway city this week, for the final mobility of the endangered species and biodiversity project, a climate change research study in the European Union, that all three schools have been working on for the last year.

The winter has always been a particularly tough time on health services, the colder darker season brings with it the usual illnesses and ailments that put our frontline nurses and doctors under added pressure, this has long been true even before the last 20 months of pandemic battle.