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IN TIMES of recession, when uncertainty is the name of the game, there is something solid and comforting about a book. It will always be there on the shelf, a source of strength, consolation, and reassurance.

This photograph was taken in the 1930s and illustrates the huge difference between the old thatched cottages in the Claddagh and the new houses that were being built to replace them. Even though the area was a building site with the new houses going up, people were obviously still living in the old houses if we are to judge from the line of washing we see hanging on the gable in the centre. The two thatched roofs look as if they are about to cave in. The woman and child we see on the right look very forlorn... could it be that their house was the next to be knocked and cleared? It may have been small and not very roomy, but it was home, probably to a number of generations of the family, so it cannot have been easy to see it flattened.

I have often been intrigued by the stories of German spies parachuted into Ireland during World War II. It was quite an intriguing time. De Valera was anxious to steer the country in neutral waters, despite serious pressure from Britain and America to at least open our ports to the transatlantic convoys which were being hammered by German U-boats. The IRA and its sympathisers, were pro German to such an extent that Germany believed it could foster a lot of trouble in Britain’s ‘back yard’ by encouraging the IRA to make mischief.

CAROL LANGSTAFF’S award-winning Flock Dance Company will hold classes in the Galway Rowing Club and Briget’s Garden.

THE CHOREOGRAPHER Carol Langstaff of the award winning Flock Dance Company will hold dance classes at the Galway Rowing Club, Woodquay.

Ireland has possibly €5.4 trillion worth of oil lying off the west coast, but nothing is being done by the State to claim it or even stake a claim for it.

Ireland has possibly €5.4 trillion worth of oil lying off the west coast, but nothing is being done by the State to claim it or even stake a claim for it.

Galway’s oldest rowing regatta takes place on Sunday at NUIG Sports Grounds in Dangan.

Potential buyers, keeping a sharp eye open for the wide range of keenly priced properties on offer under the present challenging conditions, can look forward to a brilliant location and large site size at No 8 Walshe’s Terrace. The latest in a long line of quality properties to be offered to the market by the leading Galway city based agents Property Partners Maxwell & Heaslip is to go under the hammer in the last of the summer auctions in July.

Rowers from NUIG claimed five titles at the Irish National Rowing Championships over the weekend, including the blue riband event, the men’s senior eights.