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The GLUAS working group, which has been campaigning for a light rail system in Galway since 2007, has made a submission to Galway City Council outlining its disapointment with the proposals for a new Galway bypass.

Eamonn Corbett came from Kileeneenbeg near Clarinbridge. He was associated with the Volunteer movement in County Galway from 1914 onwards. After the Redmondite split he gave valuable assistance in organising the Volunteers throughout the county, and in 1915 he was assisting Liam Mellows while training the various companies in the Brigade area.

Leading Galway property expert DNG Maxwell Heaslip & Leonard is due to kickstart its New Year with the west of Ireland’s first auction of 2014 on February 28 next. The auction, which will take place in the Radisson Blu Hotel in Galway, promises to be an engaging event with the usual eclectic mix of properties, with something to suit all types of buyers. Rahoon, Newcastle, Carnmore, Kilcolgan, and Gort are just some of the locations represented in the auction.

This remarkable photograph of Shantalla village was taken in 1945 by Pádraic Mac Dubháin and is from the National Museum collection. You will sometimes see the place name written as Shantallow and you will hear it pronounced Shantla by people with Galway accents. It is derived from the Irish ‘Sean Talamh’, old ground, though why Shantalla should be older ground than that which surrounds it is a mystery. Maybe it is because some of the land was not being worked.

The construction of a new water reservoir at Tonabrocky, which will address the long-standing problem of supply shortages for residents, can now take place.

A Galway fertility clinic is the first in the country to invest in new technology which boasts impressive results - pregnancy rates have increased by 20 per cent.

A public meeting for the Westside area takes place this evening at 7.30pm to organise a campaign of non-registration and non-payment to the Household Charge.

People living between Moycullen, Barna, and Rahoon can look forward to a better and more regular water supply from the major new reservoir to be built at Tonabrocky.

Tony Kavanagh of Sherry FitzGerald Kavanagh has reported strong sales activity for residential property in all parts of Galway city and surrounds in 2010. Mr Kavanagh said the main activity was in family homes for owner occupier purchasers who require their first home, those with expanding families who are trading up, or those who require smaller properties.

Tony Kavanagh of Sherry FitzGerald Kavanagh has reported strong sales activity for residential property in all parts of Galway city in the first six months of 2010.