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The Bollinger World Oyster Opening Championship, a highlight of the 57th Galway International Oyster and Seafood Festival, takes place on Saturday from 12pm in the festival marquee on Dock Road.

More than 50,000 revellers are set to head to the city from tomorrow as Galway gets ready for its busiest weekend of the year.

Last week I visited McGinns on the Docks (previously Sheridan’s) to see what the new owners are serving in that lovely room upstairs overlooking the dockside area. The first thing I noticed is that it is now also an exhibition area and currently features some stunning limited edition framed photos by Joe Geoghegan of scenes from the Volvo Ocean Race. They are quite spectacular, well framed and mounted. In fact from any small viewing distance they look like paintings. There is also an exhibition by six local Galway photographers downstairs. I understand this will be a venue for further exhibitions.

This Galway Race Week, from Thursday July 28 to Sunday July 31, the Galway harbour on Dock Road is set to be an all encompassing entertainment village for families, music lovers, and party goers alike.

Barr Taoide was built by TBD Developers in 2004 and is situated in the heart of Galway between Merchants Road and Dock Road, where every amenity is literally at your doorstep. Galway Docklands hosted one of the final stages of the Volvo Ocean Race in 2009 and has been selected as the finish port for the 2011 - 2012 race.

SUMMER OF Love, an installation of photographic images by the Not Abel collective, is currently on show in Bar 8, Dock Road.

A packed auction room is anticipated this Friday in the Victoria Hotel, Eyre Square, when O’Donnellan & Joyce places nine properties up for sale by public auction. According to Colm O’Donnellan of O’Donnellan & Joyce auctioneers this auction will have properties suitable for everyone with houses ranging from €80,000 to €720,000, comprising a range of properties from mid-terrace city homes to magnificent detached homes on large sites.

People in ancient times looked towards the sky to examine the stars and used them to work out directions, the changing of the seasons, and to predict the future.

Galway in 1911 was a very different place to what it is now but we can get a good sense of what it was like through the 1911 Census figures.

For nearly a century the Protestant denominations in Ireland set up missions in Connemara. Many were about winning converts, but others sought to help the communities they encountered.