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President Michael D Higgins will be one of the guests of honour this weekend when Galway Cathedral will be packed to capacity for the official installation of its new bishop, Dr Brendan Kelly.

On Sunday February 11, Bishop Brendan Kelly will be officially installed as the new Bishop of Galway, replacing Bishop Martin Drennan who retired in 2016. For the past 10 years, Bishop Kelly has been at the helm of the Diocese of Achonry, but previously spent many years working in Galway and its environs so his succession to the bishopric is something of a homecoming.

The ceremonial installation of Bishop Brendan Kelly as Bishop of Galway is expected to coincide with the official announcement of the papal visit by Pope Francis to Ireland.

The Holy Father, Pope Francis, has this morning appointed the Most Reverend Brendan Kelly, Bishop of Achonry, as the new Bishop of Galway, Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora. It is planned that Bishop Brendan’s installation will take place in the Cathedral of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven and Saint Nicholas on 11 February 2018, the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes.

Following their 1-10 to 0-13 draw last weekend in the county semi-final, Gort and Craughwell will face off again this Sunday in Kenny Park (12.30pm) to see who will face Liam Mellows in the final on December 3.

Galway Rural Development (GRD) in collaboration with Youth Work Ireland Tuam, Solas Family Resource Centre Headford, Gort and Loughrea Family Resource Centres will be hosting a Lone Parent Seminar for East Galway in the Family Centre, Dublin Road Tuam Co. Galway. The seminar will run on Monday October 16 from 10am to 3pm.

Aspiring poets are asked to answer the call of Yeats this weekend at the Thoor Closing Night at the Yeats Tower in Gort and to read their poems at the usually lively event.

O’Donnellan & Joyce held the largest property auction ever in the west of Ireland on Friday July 21 when properties from Sligo to Limerick, right throughout the western seaboard, went under the hammer in its much acclaimed Wild Atlantic Way all day property auction. The auction attracted more than 500 people into the Harbour Hotel which was packed to capacity with barely standing room available in the auction room.

O’Donnellan & Joyce’s Wild Atlantic Way auction campaign is well under way for the company's fourth auction of 2017. Set for Friday July 21 at 12 noon at the Harbour Hotel, Galway, Colm O’Donnellan has a great selection of properties lined up to go under the hammer on the day. As well as Galway city and county, this month’s auction will include properties in counties Cavan, Mayo, Limerick, Clare, Leitrim, Roscommon, and Sligo with a great selection of private homes, residential and commercial investment properties all along the Wild Atlantic Way.