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The lakeside village of Oughterard is facing a human tragedy this week. The death of local publican John Kenny has understandably hit the town of some 1,500 people hard - a peaceful village traditionally associated with fishing and tourism.

I have often heard my grandmother say that the fun of Galway races began when you were hauled up onto a sidecar, behind a lively pony, and driven at a smart pace to Ballybrit. Passengers held on tightly to each other, or to the wooden seat, as the smell of horse, and the jolting ride over rough roads gave it a carnival atmosphere. The races were a two-day meeting then yet the jarvies, or ponymen, would hang about the town for the week hoping to get a fare. As well as bringing racegoers to Ballybrit in the mornings, and home in the evenings, they also brought them to Salthill. Sometimes they carried them to the dogtrack at College Road. Either way it was a long and busy week for the ponymen who came mainly from the Moycullen area, renowned for its Connemara ponies, and passionate owners.

Oughterard hosts one of the biggest cycle races in the west this Easter weekend when the seventh annual Ras Chonamara takes place.

Ireland in the Middle Ages was a dynamic and expanding society, fuelled by intellectual enquiry, artistic innovation, and the creation of colonies in Scotland and Wales.

Brook Lodge by the Owenriff River is a splendid family home that comprises five double en suite bedrooms over a floor area of 4,000sq ft. The property at Owenriff Park is an individually architect designed house in a small enclave of superior detached homes within a short walk of Lough Corrib and the centre of Oughterard. Constructed in 2001, the property has been built to a very high standard and has been tastefully decorated throughout.

Lemonfield Lodge is a prominent and well established B&B on the main Galway road just a few hundred metres from the village of Oughterard. The house is a substantial property constructed in 2001 and specially designed as both a B&B and family home on a superb site of 0.38ha (0.94 acre).

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Ougterard’s most famous athlete, Mick Molloy, will have his name honoured in a revived race to take place in the lakeshore village.

Take a trip back in time to when you were a child growing up, there were no mobile phones, no playstations, and not a whole lot of money, so what did you do for fun?

A man with health and psychiatric difficulties went on a drunken wine bottle thieving spree through the village of Oughterard while let out on bail to attend medical appointments, the Galway District Court heard this week.