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Galway City Council has won a top national award for its bring banks in Knocknacarra, which is the busiest centre in the country.

Galway featured in the first All-Ireland hurling final in 1887 when they were beaten by Tipperary. Their first victory in a final came in 1924 when they won the 1923 decider. They played that day in blue and gold colours. They were known on other occasions to tog out in black and amber jerseys. In the 1930s the GAA decided that each county should adopt its own colours, and as UCG had won the Sigerson that year, and their captain was on the County senior team, it was decided that Galway would play from then on in maroon and white, the colours of UCG.

Galway Races has its first female committee member. Zoë Fitzgerald will attend her first race meetings as a committee member at the upcoming two day autumn festival on Monday and Tuesday September 5 and 6.

In June 1858 Galway town was in a fever of excitement. Its vision for a magnificent transatlantic port off Furbo, reaching deep into in Galway Bay, where passangers from Britain, and throughout the island of Ireland, would be brought to their emigration ship in the comfort of a train, could now be scuppered by the apparent carelessness of the two local pilots.

Galway Women’s FC are looking to protect their lead at the top of the Continental Tyres WNL when they head to Dublin to take on Shelbourne in Morton Stadium on Saturday (7pm).

The Institute of Professional Auctioneers and Valuers (IPAV) has welcomed the Government’s €30 million investment programme for rural towns and villages.