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His name is Larry Love, and despite his husky voice and somewhat vulgar tongue, his name says a lot about the man. I am enthralled as he expresses, with unashamed passion, why he and his band, Alabama 3, a group you may have heard of once or twice, are coming to Galway next month in aid of the Irish charity Ability West.

A 21-year-old Romanian woman who stole ten bottles of whiskey from a Castlebar store was sentenced to prison at Castlebar District Court this week by Judge Aeneas McCarthy.

The Pope’s children are 30. As 2009 dawns it will be 30 years since the Pope went around the Racecourse in Ballybrit and told the young people of Ireland that he loved them. But the young people at Ballybrit were not the Pope’s children. The young people of Ballybrit in 1979 are anything from 45 to 55 now. They were well able to cheer and clap and sing loudly in 1979. The Pope’s children are a different generation.

Appropriately enough, the new president for Junior Chamber International (JCI) Galway is Brenda Gannon, an economist working at NUI Galway.

AIB today announces it is reducing its one year fixed interest rate for first time buyer owner occupiers to a market leading interest rate of 2.49 per cent.

A man who had hired a taxi to bring him and his family from Dublin to Galway attempted to avoid paying the €250 fare by bringing the driver around the town to confuse him and then fleeing across the race course, the Galway District Court heard yesterday.

The top financial resolutions for 2009 are budgeting money better and saving regularly for a rainy day, according to research conducted for AIB by RED C.

A Galway man, who claimed to be the victim of a “stitch up” and that gardai had planted drugs on him, was found guilty at Galway Circuit Criminal Court yesterday of possession of some €10,000 worth of heroin with intent to sell or supply.

When we think of the continent of Africa we think of countries ravaged by AIDS, corrupt governments, civil wars, famines, and poverty. This is only one side of the story. There is also vibrant cultures, music, and people determined to succeed in the business world.

The Galway Ladies junior team faced a much-fancied Cork in the Aisling McGing Tournament at St Coleman's Gort on Sunday, having suffered a heavy defeat from the Leesiders last year. However the two sides produced a ding-dong battle from the start, and despite the odds, produced a worthy performance to share the spoils.