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Tom Grealy, the well known Galway accountant and music aficionado, remembers as a schoolboy the day John Wayne rode into the town. In 1951 Wayne, probably the best known cowboy actor of his day, was in Cong filming The Quiet Man. The film, somewhat surprisingly, remains a world -wide favourite. More than half a century later, it is still regarded by many film makers as the ‘perfect told story’. The involvement of local people among its star studded cast, which included Maureen O’Hara, Barry Fitzgerald, Victor McLaglen, and Arthur Shields, all at the peak of their careers at the time, won their lasting affection. The occasion is still celebrated in Cong today.

Fourteen new jobs are to be created in Athlone, with the news that Mixgreens, the healthy fast food franchise is to open its fifth restaurant on April 15 in the Athlone Towncentre.

Funding has been introduced to provide once-off grants to city and county councils to help manage parks, walkways, graveyards, and publicly owned lands and buildings.

Galway footballers head to the Gaelic Grounds in Drogheda this weekend knowing their solid performance and victory over Down last Sunday will count for little if they cannot back it up with another two points in Louth.

Connacht will aim to win their first Railway Cup football final since 1969, when they face Ulster this Sunday (2.30pm) in Tuam Stadium.

A budget of around €20 million will be required for a successful bid for the European Capital of Culture 2020, according to Galway city manager Brendan McGrath who assurred supportive councillors this week that the title will have “huge positive implications for Galway” for years to come.

The Salthill-Knocknacarra GAA club are already ‘geared up’ and eagerly looking forward to their annual sevens competition, which is to be held at Arus Bóthar na Trá on St Stephen’s Day.

IF I Were a Child Again, a new book compiled by Caroline Finnerty, and featuring Galway writer Miranda Manning, has just been published.

FROM BUTCHERING to balladry might seem like an unusual career arc but it is one that Mayo-born, Galway based, songwriter Michael O’Connor has managed with aplomb.

This year has proven to be a turning point for the Galway housing market. After six years of falling prices, price inflation has re-emerged most notably in Galway city. The first nine months of 2013 saw the first period of positive annual price growth in the Galway housing market since 2006. Early indications suggest that the Galway city market has grown by more than 10 per cent during 2013. The strength of price growth in Galway city is fuelled by a shortage of supply.