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Mayor Padraig Conneely has hit out at the sale of replica guns in Galway city, claiming it “sends out the wrong message” and could lead to an increase in crime in the city.

Sir William Gregory, a wealthy widower was 60, 35 years older than Augusta, when he first met her. It was at a cricket match at her home at Roxborough in the summer of 1877, to which he was invited. He was late, and sat at the only vacant place left at the table, beside Augusta. ‘Augusta wore a fashionable dress bought at Bon Marché in Paris, and a black and white straw hat decorated with corn ears and poppies. The usually plain, quiet, girl was noticeable and pretty.’ By the end of the day Sir William was smitten.

Nobody has yet been charged in relation to the armed raid on the Post Office on High Street in Kilkenny last Friday.

The staff at the Galway Rape Crisis Centre were forced to lodge a complaint with gardai after a Connemara man made 17 nuisance calls and threatened to break every window and then burn the centre down, the Galway District Court heard last week.

An Post is to install an additional post box at The Square in Johnstown following representations from Councillor Mary Hilda Cavanagh.

There was a time where you could have gone from January to December and not have heard a single story about an armed raid in Kilkenny, however, clearly those days are long gone.

A sixty-year-old man who fraudulently cashed in a number of social welfare cheques, with a total value of over €1,100 appeared before Kilkenny District Court last week.

A face that many may be familiar with in Kilkenny is that of Frank Kavanagh and many may not be surprised to learn that he has finally put himself forward as an independent candidate in the upcoming local elections.

Shortly after dawn on Saturday, September 16 1944, Michael Conneely, a bachelor of 55 years was asleep in his cottage at Ailleabreach, Ballyconneely, when loud banging on his door woke him. He shouted ‘who’s there?’ The storm of the previous two days had abated but he couldn’t make out what the voice said. Grabbing a pitchfork, he slowly opened to door. Outside were two men, wet to the skin, in deep distress. Michael put the pitchfork to the throat of the first man: ‘Who are you?

Joe Togher was born in Headford on September 8, 1898. His father was a shopkeeper and his mother was from Carlow, and they had three more sons and a daughter. His father died when he was very young, so in 1910 his mother moved the family into Francis Street in Galway where she opened a small hotel (see photograph) to support them. She was very busy with the business so it was Joe’s sister Nell who looked after him. He went to ‘The Mon’ where a nationalistic Brother Leo was a major influence. Joe was a good oarsman, a champion sculler.