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One does not have to dig very deep into the archives to find evidence of wholescale corruption, pervasive nepotism, and general theft of public monies by public representatives and officials in nineteenth-century Mayo.

Local Fianna Fáil Minister of State, Deputy Robert Troy, has welcomed the confirmation of a €7 million fund to develop community facilities and amenities in rural Westmeath.

The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O’Brien and the Minister of State for Planning and Local Government, Deputy Peter Burke, have urged people to share their experiences of housing defects relating to fire safety, structural safety and water ingress in purpose-built apartment and duplex buildings constructed in Westmeath between 1991 and 2013.

Fine Gael Councillor, Andrew Reddington is encouraging people in Galway city and county to apply for the 2022 strand of the Music and Entertainment Business Assistance Scheme (MEBAS).

SAFF, JOHN Reinke, Josh Dial, and Barbara Fisher, from Tiger King, the Netflix documentary and phenomenon, will be in Galway for a live show in 2022.

According to a Browne family tradition, the first Browne to settle in Ireland was Phillipus de Browne who in 1172 was appointed Governor of Wexford. He had three sons, one of whom, Walter, settled in County Galway, where his posterity still remains. By around the year 1300, the Brownes seemed to have settled in the Athenry area. They were one of the 14 families from the Irish lower classes who rose to become Galway’s prime merchant families, and who famously were known as The Tribes of Galway.

Well known Tuam historian Catherine Corless, who was instrumental in discovering the death and burial of hundreds of children at the Tuam Mother and Baby Home, has been honoured with the Irish Red Cross Lifetime Achievement Award.

On the afternoon of July 14 1789 a mob unleashed its fury and frustration by forcing an entry into the Bastille, a medieval armoury, fortress and political prison in the centre of Paris. In the short but bloody battle that ensued some 98 of the mob were killed, as were three officers of the guard. Three more were lynched, and Marquis de Launay, governor of the prison, and the local mayor, Prevot de Flesselles, who had pleaded for peace, were stabbed to death and beheaded. Although the prison contained only seven inmates at the time of the storming, it was seen as a symbol of the monarchy’s abuse of power. It was the flashpoint of the French Revolution.

A total of €9,984 has been allocated to various festivals around Galway city under the 2021 Local Community Festivals Grant Scheme.

In the 1860s, 20 years after Charles Dickens expressed his disgust at the living conditions in the vastly over-crowded tenements of New York’s ‘Five Points’, in Lr East Side, the situation simply got worse.