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The Anglo-Irish Treaty - A flawed document, or the means to achieve freedom?

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As a direct consequence of the death of three National Army soldiers during a botched raid on the barracks in Headford on Sunday April 8 1923, six anti-Treaty young men, already in Galway jail, were selected for immediate execution. They had been arrested during a raid on their training camp in the Currandulla area six weeks earlier.

Southern Gaels prevail in high scoring junior championship fixture

Southern Gaels 5-16 Crookedwood 3-16

Galway firepower should be too strong for Laois

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The Galway senior hurlers resume their Leinster championship campaign this Saturday evening when they travel to O’Moore Park in Portlaoise to take on Laois in the penultimate round of games in the group stage (5pm).

Shefflin's Galway ready to battle Kilkenny in Pearse Stadium

Having comfortably outclassed Westmeath last weekend, the Galway senior hurlers face their stiffest test of the 2022 season to date when Kilkenny roll into town on Sunday for a mouth-watering clash in round three of the Leinster championship.

Féile Traidphicnic celebrates 10th birthday this weekend

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LIAM Ó MAONLAÍ of The Hothouse Flowers will be among the musicians performing at Féile Traidphicnic, the An Spidéal based festival of Irish traditional music and arts, which this year takes place online.

MacNeill feared a bloodbath if unarmed Volunteers came out

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‘How did the Germans receive our plans? With polite incredulity’…..wrote Liam Ó Briain, the Galway professor who took part in the 1916 Rising, ‘ignorant of Ireland they viewed us as forlorn visionaries, and even doubted whether we would be rash enough to challenge the armed might of England’.

 

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