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Closing date extended for the Mayor’s Awards

The Galway City Council has expressed its condolences to the family of a homeless man who died last Friday on ‘The Line’ near Lough Atalia in the city.

The April meeting of Galway City Council was a long and arduous affair but it was ultimately a productive one. We sat at 2.00pm and finished at the mandatory time of 8.45pm. I intend to bring forward a motion to allow the procedures committee to change the rules to allow for a later finishing time when required. Work should finish when work is done is my belief.

Two Mayo companies, Big Red Barn and Ezewarm, have made important breakthroughs in the US market with the announcement of developments with the city of Warwick in Rhode Island.

The Mayor of Chicago and former White House Chief of Staff in the Obama administration, Rahm Emanuel, enjoyed Galway's hospitality this week.

A sum of €20,000 has been allocated by Athlone Municipal District for this year's River and Food Festival.

This week, I feel very much like a character in Juno and the Paycock, the famous play by Sean O’Casey.

An Honorary Doctorate will be conferred on Rahm Emanuel, the Mayor of Chicago and a former White House Chief of Staff in the Obama administration, at a ceremony in NUI Galway on Tuesday April 3.

An extraordinary thing happened in the Hungarian city of Gyor on St Patrick’s Day, March 17 1697. A painting of the Virgin and Child, brought to the city 42 years previously by Bishop Walter Lynch, a member of the esteemed Lynch family of Galway, began to ‘weep copiously’ during Mass. Despite having been wiped clean with linen cloths (one of those cloths is still preserved), it continued to exude ‘a bloody sweat’ for three hours.