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“If there was a great gale blowing from the West and you were in the house playing music, you would not hear any wind.”

Galway’s major sporting and social festival, The Galway Races, has become the setting for a major new Irish language contemporary comedy drama series - Rásaí na Gaillimhe.

Without the EU, the M6 motorway running past Athenry, its local road infrastructure, and the western rail corridor connecting Athenry to Limerick would “never have got off the ground”.

East Galway secondary school students with an interest in writing new Irish traditional music or reinterpreting old standards in new ways are being asked to take part in the Do Sheans ar CD competition.

A moving and courageous book by a Castlebar man who is one off Ireland’s best known TV personalities, will be launched in Castlebar Library on Friday September 18 at 8pm.

Just over a year since the Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy causing financial shock waves throughout the world, with the crest of these shock waves forcing Ireland into a deep recession, the Government’s legislative resuscitation for our economy, through the establishment of the National Asset Management Agency to purge the five financial institutions in the country — AIB, Anglo Irish Bank, Bank of Ireland, EBS Building Society and Irish Nationwide – of toxic loans which were incurred during the property boom, has begun.

Just over a year since the Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy causing financial shock waves throughout the world, with the crest of these shock waves forcing Ireland into a deep recession, the Government’s legislative resuscitation for our economy, through the establishment of the National Asset Management Agency to purge the five financial institutions in the country — AIB, Anglo Irish Bank, Bank of Ireland, EBS Building Society and Irish Nationwide – of toxic loans which were incurred during the property boom, has begun.

A man who pleaded guilty to his part in the theft of €500 worth of cable from an Eircom yard in Claremorris was convicted and fined €100 at Claremorris District Court this week.

The funeral has taken place of 15-year-old Niall Keenan, who tragically lost his life at the weekend following a road traffic collision in the Killucan area.

FRANKIE GAVIN will lead The New De Dannan in what is sure to prove a wonderful night of superb Irish trad, in the Town Hall Theatre Galway on Monday October 5.