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If you happen to be mingling with Mayo folk in advance of Sunday’s Connacht Senior Football Championship final and they’re bowling you over with gushing praise for the quality of this Galway team - while also at the same time talking down their own prospects - my advice would be to smile, nod, and say the bare minimum.

Galway is facing a housing paradox. On one hand, house prices and rents continue to soar, making it increasingly difficult for people to find affordable homes. On the other, over 5 per cent of residential properties in the county sit vacant, with many of them derelict.

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Award-winning garden designer and 2024 Bloom Gold medal recipient Leonie Cornelius is among the distinguished line-up of guest speakers at a free event focusing on the environment at Theatre 1000, ATU Galway, on Wednesday, November 13.

When someone who has played a significant role in your life dies, it naturally heralds a time for some reflection and their death also holds a mirror up to our own mortality.

Galway face Sligo in the Connacht semi-final this Saturday in Markievicz Park at 3.30pm. With both sides having won their respective quarter-finals two weeks ago, an interesting game is surely in store for punters.

RHS Home Care, a well-established not-for-profit cooperative providing home support services in the West of Ireland since 1996, is thrilled to announce an expansion into counties Leitrim and Sligo.

New data from AIB reveals that spending was up eight percent from January to November 2023 when compared with the same period in 2022.

Determined, confident and energetic, the four lads behind Galway band, Telebox, talk practice spaces named after bomb shelters, the collective love they share for Leitrim, the launch of their debut EP, 'What is the Point?', and upcoming gig at Róisín Dubh on Saturday, July 1.

It has to be the year of the Shark, that’s John ‘Shark’ Hanlon from County Carlow. He bought a horse called Hewick. He didn’t pay dearly for it (not even a thousand euro) and then won the Galway Plate last summer. He added another win at Sandown, and between the two he pocketed half a million euro. Not bad for a year’s work. But just last October he won the American Grand National at Fair Hills in New Jersey with a $160,000 dollar first prize. Now he is 33/1 to take the Cheltenham Gold Cup in March. D’ya think, maybe.