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When Sabina Higgins welcomes you into her private office before a long-scheduled interview, immaculately turned out in an azure, roll-neck woollen dress with anti-war and global sustainability badges pinned to her shoulder, you know she means business.

Prepare yourself for copious cups of tea, reams of red tank-tops, nuns on the run, priests on the pull, hobby horses, lovely girls, mad costumes and a most unusual brass band called The Circus Ponies.

Galway had a routine win in the first round of the Allianz Hurling League over Westmeath last Saturday afternoon in Pearse Stadium. The win was overshadowed however, by the news that Sarsfields forward Kevin Cooney will be out for up to five months after requiring surgery to repair a severe hamstring injury.

The Survivors Integrated Service at the London Irish Centre recently received a letter from a survivor of St Anne’s Orphanage, Lenaboy, Taylors Hill — The centre thought it would be nice to share this anonymous letter with the people of Galway as they want to recognise that not all survivors’ experiences of institutions were the same. This letter is only meant to reflect one person’s experience of their time at St Anne’s and their memories of how the community of Galway came together to give them a magical Christmas experience every year.

Linley MacKenzie

During the first 20 years of the 19th century Maria Edgeworth was the most successful and celebrated living novelist. With her friends Sir Culling Smith and his lady wife they had travelled from Edgeworthstown, Co Longford, to Galway, and from there they planned a leisurely holiday in Connemara.

The Galway Minor Camogie team suffered its first defeat in the Electric Ireland Minor A Championship, losing to Tipperary by 0-14 to 2-4 in the Ragg on Sunday.

Mark Cunningham provided the heroics for Castlebar Celtic in the Calor Gas Super Cup last weekend when he grabbed a last gasp winner for the Hoops' against Ballyheane in Celtic Park.

In a repeat of last year’s Glen Dimplex All-Ireland Intermediate final, Galway, without any of the players who were part of that success, suffered a third defeat in the Very Ireland Division 2B, losing to Cork 3-9 to 2-15.

The Galway Minor camogie team made it two wins from two in the in the Electric Ireland Minor A camogie championship, overcoming Kilkenny 2-3 to 0-8 in Ballinasloe on Sunday.