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A personal, sideways, view of our new city councillors, who took their seats in City Hall on Monday.

A personal, sideways, view of our new city councillors, who took their seats in City Hall on Monday.

On Friday July 24 O’Donnellan & Joyce will bring into the auction room a splendid three bed end of terrace house in Castle Park for the unbelievable price of €99,000. People have been calling the offices of O‘Donnellan & Joyce over the past few days asking if the price quoted was a misprint — they thought that there was a digit missing in the price quoted for this lovely property, and that it should read €199,000. However this is not the case and No 174 Castle Park is going into the auction room of O’Donnellan & Joyce on Friday July 24 at €99,000.

GALWAY THEATREGOERS are in for a rare treat next week when Argentinean company La Compania bring their award-winning production of Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days to the Town Hall for one night only on Friday September 25.

Young Irish entrepreneur, Gavin Dunne, returned to Ireland this week to launch a tendering website ideal for small businesses and consumers, www.zumpty.ie. 

One of the most dramatic and legendary events in the history of Irish foxhunting took place with the Galway Blazers on December 19 1953 between Cregg Castle, Corandulla, and beyond the Clare river, near Anbally. This is great fox hunting terrain. It’s level going, open and free. When on a good scent the hounds will skim the walls and allow no time for man or beast to make mistakes if they want to stay close to them. December 19 1953 was a clear, frosty day, with similar temperatures to those we are enduring these past few weeks. The hounds were in full pursuit ‘skimming the long low walls the way the swallows do’. After a four mile chase they hit the river Clare about a mile short of the nearest bridge at Corofin village.

The State could save money if it centralised the Electoral Register, according to local Fine Gael TD, James Bannon.

When it comes to the relationship between poetry and political/social issues most people would instinctively concur with the English poet, novelist, and playwright Adrian Mitchell.

The American columnist and wit Franklin P Adams noted that elections are won “chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody”.

I’m telling you, any day now, it’s going to happen.