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With only a few days to go before the gates of Galway Racecourse open to welcome hundreds of vintage and classic cars, tractors, motorbikes, steam engines and much more, it already promises to be the biggest shows held in Ireland in 2022.

This weekend marks the highlight of Captain Thomas O’Connor’s golfing year when he hosts his Captain’s weekend at Athlone Golf Club.

Athlone Golf Club has confirmed that the annually hosted Open Week, certain to attract a wealth of golfers from the Midlands region and beyond, will commence on Saturday, May 28 and conclude on Bank Holiday Monday, June 6.

Matches continue to arrive thick and fast for Salthill Devon, who are away to Liffey Wanderers in the first round of the FAI Cup on Sunday.

Years ago, there was neither an independent community orchestra nor a musical instrument teaching system in Galway city or county. A handful of schools, mostly run by religious orders, taught a small range of instruments and would put a small orchestra together for their annual school show or operetta, their music teachers being very influential in passing on a love of music to their pupils.

Loughrea received a welcome jobs boost this week with the news that 60 jobs are to be created with the opening of the latest offering from the Plaza Group in the area.

Salthill Devon advanced to the quarter-final stage of the FAI Junior Cup following a dramatic penalty shootout success over Fairview Rangers in Limerick on Sunday.

Victor Collins' in form Salthill Devon outfit face a tough away clash against Limerick's Fairview Rangers in the last 16 of the FAI Junior Cup on Sunday afternoon.

With four clubs to be relegated from the Galway FA premier division important matches continue to arrive thick and fast.

With smallpox sufferers in make-shift refuges such as out-buildings, rooms in the Loughrea barracks, and in sheds outside Dr Leonard’s home, all hopes are placed on the ready-made iron hospital ordered from Messrs Braby and Co. London. The hospital was to accommodate 12 patients, but already within five weeks of the first case being reported in Athenry, there were 20 cases of smallpox, three of whom had died.