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The annual summer classical music festival in Bofeenaun church is a must for the music lover. On Saturday July 16 and Monday July 18, a group of outstanding classical musicians will again be filling this beautiful church, set against the dramatic backdrop of Nephin Mountain, with a blend of familiar and less familiar pieces, introduced, as always, with their trademark humour and insight.

Oughterard, currently in the spotlight for Celebrity Bainisteoir, will continue its action-packed summer activities with its annual show, which takes place this year on August 27 and 28.

Summer music in Bofeenaun

The post office in Ballintubber will close from end of business today (Friday May 13).

Seapoint Ballroom was officially opened at 10pm on July 17 1949 by Joe Costelloe, Mayor of Galway. Noel Finan bought the site from Jim and Mary Cremin, who were brother and sister. They ran a famous seawater baths there, a kind of health spa of its day. At the time Salthill was a small village with a few hotels, B&Bs, and shops. It also had the Hangar which was run by John Allen, but it closed down in Race Week when dancing moved into a marquee in Eyre Square. At the time it was 1s 6d into the Hangar for women and 1s 9d for men.

There was something altogether appropriate about Maitias O’Gormaile of Tuam reaching the end of his life’s journey on St Patrick’s Day. For his sense of Irish identity was deeply rooted and expressed itself in every aspect of his life, from the language he so loved, to the history and folklore of the country, its music and song and dance, and, of course, its sporting traditions, especially hurling, which he championed in his part of Galway, an area better known for Gaelic football.

GARDAI in Tuam are hunting the raider who attempted to ram a rural post office early yesterday (Wednesday).

O’Donnellan & Joyce will commence its 2011 auction campaign with four properties at enormous discount prices. Last year the company recorded the highest level of sales by public auction of any auctioneering company in Ireland, and the highest rate of success with 80 per cent of properties sold either during the auction or immediately afterwards. With sellers anxious to turn their properties into cash, buyers are heading to the auction room to get value for money.

Today (Friday), Mags Murphy from Turlough Stores will travel to Dublin and shave her head as part of a world record attempt on Today FM’s Ray D’Arcy Show. The aim is to raise much needed funds for the Irish Cancer Society.

Apart from the profound influence that teachers had on their young students at Crumlin National School, Ballyglunin, Co Galway, the passing trains on the old Claremorris-Limerick line told them all the time of day, and the seasons of the year. The old school was located practically under the railway bridge. The train passed only yards from the classrooms. “We would wave out at the trains passing....” recalls Phil Forde, who stared school there when she was three years old in 1935. “There would be extra trains during the beet campaign. The beet would all go to the station in the horse and cart, and there would be about 20 wagons after the steam engine.”