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Despite slipping down to eighth place on the final day of an interesting League of Ireland season, Galway United can still reflect on a year in which so many youngsters acquired top-flight experience.

Galway athletes took full advantage of the favourable conditions at the Athletics Ireland West Region Cross Country Championships for juvenile athletes aged under 11 to under 19 years. Hosted by Tuam Athletic Club, the championships saw a host of impressive performances from Connacht athletes. Individual titles were won by Liam Costello of Galway City Harriers in the u-11 boys, Annie Tynan Daly of Ballinasloe & District in the u-13 girls, Alanna Lally of GCH in the u-15 girls, and the Brassil sisters of Ballinasloe, Sive and Maeve, in the u17 and u-19 girls’ competitions respectively.

Swimmers from all of Connacht and some from Munster competed over the two-day swimming festival at Leisureland, Salthill.

THE HUMAN Voice, a poetic, surreal, yet gut wrenching examination of an abandoned love, by the French playwright and film maker Jean Cocteau, will be performed in Galway next week.

NUI, GALWAY’S student societies will celebrate the newly refurbished student centre Áras na Mac Léinn by hosting the first Soc’s Music Week from Monday to Thursday of next week.

This photograph was taken from the first floor of The Galway Arms at 2.25pm on a summer day in 1910 when these people were processing over O’Brien’s Bridge to the site of Saint Mary’s College for the laying of the foundation stone for that school. The large crowd is being led by a group of priests all wearing birettas, followed by several RIC men. There is an interesting mix of styles on view with some women wearing patterned Galway shawls while others are sporting large fashionable hats. Virtually all of the men are wearing headgear, be they hard hats or soft caps. Notice the tramtracks.

No 47 Ashbrook, Oranmore, is a splendid three bedroom semidetached family home with the benefit of a second reception room currently used as a home office and study. Its best selling features are its very central location in Oranmore village, its generous plot size, and the spacious, well designed, living interior which extends to some 1,300sq ft.

Located just off the main Galway to Dublin road at Moyvilla, Oranmore, and with planning permission for an extensive home, this is probably one of the most attractive sites to come to the open market for some time.

Two NUI Galway students have been awarded the Chicago Student Social Work Scholarships by the Chicago Immigrant Support Centre. First year MA in social work programme students Marie Hoban from Liscarney, Co Mayo, and Bridget O’Hara from Salthill, Galway, will each receive a scholarship of $3,500. This is the second consecutive year that NUI Galway students from this programme have been awarded the scholarship.

Galway was reeling last evening after a day of horror on the roads on Tuesday which saw five people die in two separate accidents in a twelve-hour period.