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More than 430 runners took part in the 2026 edition of the Craughwell Road Races with 227 finishers in the 10km race and some 212 finishers in the 10 mile event.

Legendary British singer-songwriter Ralph McTell has announced that tickets for his last-ever tour of Ireland go on sale next week.

Councillor Helen Ogbu has congratulated Catherine Connolly on her election, describing it as “a new dawn for an Ireland rooted in unity, inclusivity, and shared purpose”.

Michael Grealish served his apprenticeship (it cost him 100 guineas) in Garret’s Saddlery in Eyre Square, roughly where the Imperial Hotel is today. When he finished, he decided to set up his own saddlery business at the beginning of the last century at Number 2, Eyre Square. At the time, the horse reigned supreme. There were regular horse fairs in Eyre Square at the time and this obviously helped his start-up.

It has already been a memorable campaign for Galway United, who now mix it with the best on a weekly basis.

Tributes have been paid by President Higgins to Padraic de Bhaldraithe of Barna who passed away this week and whose funeral Is taking place today.

I think it must have been in the year 1967, on a visit to O’Gorman’s Printing House which was an extension of the famous O’Gorman Bookshop, that I had a discussion with an urbane man whom I think must have been Ronnie O’Gorman’s uncle. Over the course of that visit, a discussion took place on whether there was room for a second newspaper in Galway.

Join Ireland’s ‘King of Swing’, Luke Thomas and his band The Swing Cats, for their KINGS OF THE SWING TOUR in the Roscommon Arts Centre on Saturday, March 23, at 8pm.

Ever since girls’ and women’s rugby was established at Galway Corinthians RFC, the search for silverware has sometimes been fruitless. Some years ago, plate titles would have been their lot despite the coaches’, parents’, and players’ efforts.