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Lynch auctioneers is offering for sale this attractive end-of-terrace property, situated in an excellent location, just off the main Tuam road, approximately a 15 minute walk to Eyre Square and convenient to all amenities and Galway city centre.

Though the Galway FA’s U16 team suffered a final defeat against Cork in Sunday’s inter-league final, significant progress has been made on and off the field of play.

The Atlantic Technological University (ATU) this week hosted a major business engagement event to assess to degree to which higher education institutions are meeting the needs of enterprise in the West and North West.

"In your own time" could be the motto at Galway Community Training Centre (CTC), where early school leavers who, for a variety of reasons, find mainstream education a less than perfect fit can access a practical, creative, two year accredited alternative.

Galway eventually came out on top of Armagh in one of the most thrilling games Croke Park has seen for years, 2-21 to 3-18 after extra-time with the Tribesmen winning 4-1 on penalties. The teams could not be separated in normal time or extra time and almost three hours after the ball was first thrown in Matthew Tierney’s penalty struck the net and jubilant celebrations could finally begin in the Galway camp.

“There is nothing as Galway as Our Lady's Boy’s Club,” was how our president Michael D Higgins described OLBC some years ago at a function in the Columban Hall. It is more than 80 years since it was founded and it is the longest-running youth club in the country. It was set up by Fr Leonard Shiel SJ at a time when there were was a lot of grinding poverty in Galway and no recreational facilities or extra-curricular activities for young people in areas like the Claddagh, Bohermore, Shantalla, and ‘The West’. The club provided these and has been a source of guidance and inspiration to thousands of young men and boys since, especially those from a working class background. From that first day of nervous membership, right through their teens, and even after they had taken up the challenges of adult life, the spirit and watchful eye of the Club is ever with them.

“There is nothing as Galway as Our Lady's Boy’s Club,” was how our president Michael D Higgins described OLBC some years ago at a function in the Columban Hall. It is more than 80 years since it was founded and it is the longest-running youth club in the country. It was set up by Fr Leonard Shiel SJ at a time when there were was a lot of grinding poverty in Galway and no recreational facilities or extra-curricular activities for young people in areas like the Claddagh, Bohermore, Shantalla, and ‘The West’. The club provided these and has been a source of guidance and inspiration to thousands of young men and boys since, especially those from a working class background. From that first day of nervous membership, right through their teens, and even after they had taken up the challenges of adult life, the spirit and watchful eye of the Club is ever with them.

Members of Athlone Little Theatre will take to the boards on Saturday, June 25, to present a staged reading of a new epic poem 'An Gorta Mór Bis', based on the Great Famine, the work written by a fourth generation Irish American Thomas Milan, a retired NATO official living in Paris.

NUI Galway recently celebrated 20 years of graduates from its biomedical engineering programme with a special event on campus.

So much of what will shape Galway in the remainder of this century will centre on where we position ourselves in terms of innovation, quality of life, sustainability, inclusivity and community.