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Galway is famous worldwide for its aquatic diversity, oysters, seafish, salmon, trout, pike and many more. For more than 800 years Irish Monks cultivated many species of fish. For the first time in the West of Ireland you can keep many species of marine and freshwater fish, invertebrates and corals in your own home or business.

Councillor Kevin ‘Boxer’ Moran has questioned the role of the ESB in the disastrous floods that hit Athlone in 2009.

BBC Science programme presenter, Professor Iain Stewart will deliver a geology public lecture at NUI Galway on Monday next, November 9. The lecture, ‘Between a Rock and a Hard Place: communicating geology to society’, is a collaboration between Galway Earth and Ocean Sciences Student Society, Galway Geological Association and NUI Galway’s Earth and Ocean Sciences.

Flood relief and prevention works, due to take place in Claregalway, will be able to proceed following the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform signing off on the environmental review for the Clare River Flood Relief Scheme.

Mayo based Udaras na Gaeltachta has been selected as a finalist of the 2015 Sustainable Energy Awards. Now in its 12th year, the awards encourage and reward excellence in energy management and are organised by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland and sponsored by Electric Ireland and Enprova.

Galway is delighted to welcome Santa, Mrs Clause and all their elves and helpers to Ireland’s first ever Ice Cabin and Mountaintop Frozen Village to be constructed in Market Street in December.

Sherry FitzGerald New Homes has announced the launch of seven luxury detached homes on a 3.7 acre seashore site overlooking Galway Bay, in Furbo, Co Galway.

A CONCERT celebrating song and the human voice will take place in the Ardrahan Church of Ireland church on Friday November 6 at 7.30pm.

After the success of phase 1 sales of 12 homes at Maoilín on the Ballymoneen Road, Burkeway Homes Ltd has announced the launch of phase 2 of 20 homes from plans. Phase 2 comprises a mix of two, three, and four bed semidetached and four bed detached homes ranging in size from 996sq ft to 1,400sq ft. These homes will all be BER A rated and will be built to a very high standard of construction. 

Fianna Fáil TD for Longford-Westmeath, Robert Troy, has called on the Government to provide certainty for Bord na Móna workers employed in peat powered power plants across the Midlands following the High Court’s decision to quash an extension of the plant’s peat extraction licence.