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Four students from St Gerald’s College, Castlebar, have lined up a meeting with the European Central Bank president Mario Draghi.

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James Michael Curley - four times mayor of Boston, twice elected to the House of Representatives, one term as Governor of Massachusetts, and two terms in jail, was the son of County Galway parents who emigrated as children to the US in the 1860s. The stories told about Curley are proverbially legion. Presidents Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter rarely let an Irish politician go without asking if they had any stories about James Michael Curley. (The one president who shunned anything to do with Curley, was president John F Kennedy. But more about that in a moment).

A Headford man who attempted to steal construction materials for scrap from the back of a supermarket and when caught red-handed assaulted the owner by driving his van straight at him before fleeing was fined a total of €850 and disqualified from driving for six months.

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The last four teams left standing in the Claregalway Hotel Senior Football Championship take centre stage this Sunday in an attractive double header at Tuam stadium.

This was a game that Moycullen will really regret losing. They had some great goal opportunities to put themselves into the county semi-final, but they did not take any of them.