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Financially crippled and struggling to pay off debts, a Loughrea man walked into a credit union pretending to be a relative of his wife and tried to withdraw €6,500, the Galway District Court heard this week.

Today is the final day for the public to nominate bands and artists for the Meteor’s Hope For 2010 Awards and there is a host of Galway bands and singers long listed for the prize.

A total of 45 sporting clubs in Galway city and county are to benefit from grants totalling €1,722,500 from the Department of Arts, Sports, and Tourism.

Gardaí are warning householders in east Galway to be wary of unsolicited callers after a man called to a number of homes claiming to be a health professional.

Five people remain in custody today after gardaí seized over 17kgs of explosives in Galway over the weekend

Businesses in Loughrea are being warned by gardai to update security systems regularly as two break-ins in the past week could have been “dry runs” to test out alarms and other security features.

Award winning craft butcher Declan Corry this week opened his new venture at Corry’s food hall and cafe at Station Road in Loughrea. The new outlet will provide 16 jobs in the town.

Linda Welby is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and a mother of eight children, who has just released her debut album A Story To Tell on LAW records.

A 24-year-old garda was killed in the early hours of Sunday after a single vehicle road collision at Masonbrook in Loughrea, Co Galway.

Galway East Tourism scooped the top prize at the Galway County Heritage Awards, held in Claregalway last week.