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Newport NS takes part in unique global art project in Australia

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Thirty lucky pupils from The Holy Family School in Newport have been busy taking part in an exciting global art project involving bookmaking and illustration. The project devised by visual artist Cas Mc Carthy called “Things I love” was launched on Friday for Cruinniù Na nÒg national day of creativity for children.

Learn to jive in February

A new four week total beginner jive course will start next month in a number of venues in Galway city and county.

Learn to jive in February

A new four week total beginner jive course will start next month in a number of venues in Galway city and county.

Humble Works for Humble People

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Our illustration today is of the inner part of Galway Bay and shows the piers and harbours therein. It is one of the images in a new book entitled Humble Works for Humble People written by Noel Wilkins, a retired professor of zoology who has a number of titles to his name already, many of them dealing with County Galway. This book explores the history of the fishery piers and harbours of County Galway and north Clare. It is a scholarly but eminently readable testament to these piers as feats of engineering, but it also gives us a wonderful account of the human aspect that shadowed their construction, and finally it describes beautifully the maritime activities that gave life to the west coast — kelp making, fishing, turf distribution, and sea-borne trade.

20,000 turn out for final day of Galway Science and Technology Festival

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The 19th Galway Science and Technology Festival welcomed another record breaking 20,000 visitors to its annual final day Exhibition at NUI Galway last Sunday, and honoured several people on the day with major science awards. The two-week Festival culminated in the final day Exhibition and also brought 180 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths) shows and workshops to 35,000 primary and secondary school students across Galway City and County.

 

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