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The village of Knock is preparing for an influx of up to 120,000 to 150,000 people next week during the National Novena to Our Lady of Knock - which will run from Monday, August 14, to Wednesday, August 23. The annual novena at the Marian Shrine is one of the biggest events to draw people into the county each year and this year is no different. This year is the 40th year of the National Novena to Our Lady of Knock, the original intention behind the Novena was to recognise the unique role that Knock has to play in the life of the Irish church. The theme of this year's pilgrimage is 'Living Life to the Full' and there will be a number of guest speakers, and daily workshops along with services taking place over the nine days of the novena. Ceremonies will take place at 3pm and 8.30pm and workshops at 12 noon and 6pm each day.

The fourth annual Gathering of the Mannion Clan will take place in the village of Menlough in East Galway next weekend Friday and Saturday August 18-19 as National Heritage Week 2017 gets under way. Heritage will undoubtedly form the central theme of this year’s Mannion Rally, which will see the unveiling of new welcome name-stones bearing the village’s full Irish-language name Mionlach Uí Mhainnín (the small lough of the Mannions) on all approach roads.

A Galway feminist and activist is commemorating the centenary of her famous grandmother’s US tour for Irish independence with her own speaking tour this autumn.

A book written by a Galway fitness trainer and former fitness model became a bestseller on Amazon, the online retail giant, within 24 hours of going on the market.

It is the thing that every gardener wants... a beautiful lawn and to be the envy of the neighbourhood with a flawless carpet of healthy grass. With a little bit of work and some sound help and advice it is not so difficult to achieve.

Tá scagairí tíreolaíochta as Gaeilge do gach contae in Éirinn forbartha ag Snapchat mar chuid d’fheachtas Gaelsnap Chonradh na Gaeilge. Is í Éire an tír is mó úsáid Snapchat de réir chéatadán na ndaoine fásta a bhaineann úsáid as i ngach margadh sa domhan, agus fáiltíonn Conradh na Gaeilge roimh sheoladh na scagairí tíreolaíochta Gaeilge ar an aip Snapchat inniu.

Hennessy Ireland and Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) have chosen a work by Westmeath contemporary artist Mark Garry to be purchased by The Hennessy Art Fund for IMMA Collection 2017.

GALWAY DANCE Project, with Galway Community Pride and Electric Garden and Theatre, present a special Vogue workshop with dancer Russell Brown, on Friday August 11 in the Abbeygate Street venue.

DRUID'S GIAF offering this year was Mark O’Rowe’s unsettling 2003 play Crestfall, directed by Annabelle Comyn. Designer Aedin Cosgrove sets the action in a corrugated red box resembling a shipping container where three female prisoner-protagonists, wearing plain smocks, relate their stories.

The new Jaguar E-Pace has set an official Guinness World Record title during its world premiere. The compact performance SUV leapt into the record books with a 15.3 metre-long jump complete with a 270-degree corkscrew-like ‘barrel roll’.