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Galway will face Wexford again this year in the All-Ireland senior camogie final on September 11 at Croke Park after Noel Finn’s team had an impressive 2-13 to 2-7 victory over Kilkenny on Saturday afternoon in Nowlan Park.

In his interesting biography of Eamon de Valera*, Diarmaid Ferriter reports that in December 2000 gardaí seized 24 love letters from de Valera to his young wife Sinéad, which were being advertised for auction by Mealy’s of Castlecomer. It was believed that the letters were stolen in the mid 1970s from the de Valera family home. The owners, who had bought them in England some years previously in an effort to ensure their return to Ireland, were unaware that they had been stolen.

As letter writers to newspapers know, as soon as you make your point, and satisfied that it is the only salient point worth making, you can be brought back to reality smartly by a riposte! Sir Roger Casement’s letter in the Irish language newspaper An Claidheamh Soluis, in the late summer of 1904, was a hard hitting criticism of the attitude of those parents who favoured that their children learned to speak English, instead of Irish. “The general mass of the Irish speaking parents have kicked the language out of doors.” He fully supported the struggle of the people of Tawin, a small island on the east side of Galway Bay, who had withdrawn their children from the local national school because they wanted their children educated through Irish. As a result the authorities withdrew the schoolmistress, and the school, unused for years, fell into disrepair. They warned the islanders that if they wanted the school to re-open they had to pay for its repair.

Twenty-four-year-old Sinéad Roche, from Moy Heights, Ballina, will join approximately 20 other swimmers in the annual Frances Thornton Memorial Galway Bay Swim, on Saturday July 24, to raise funds for Cancer Care West.

Ladies Shield

Carlow were joined by camogie squads from Antrim, Down, Louth, Roscommon, Wexford, Waterford and Cavan in Croke Park this week to hone their skills as part of the Coillte Camogie Development Squads’ Day.

Are you wondering where you might go on Paddy’s Night? Well, wonder no more, as the St Patrick’s Night special concert at the Town Hall Theatre in Galway is undoubtedly the place to be! Presented by Gary Quinn, this promises to be a hugely entertaining concert with exceptionally talented performances of traditional Irish music, song and dance. It’s the kind of entertainment you would expect to see on a St Patrick’s Night in Galway.

There are a wide range of free events at your local library to celebrate the annual Bealtaine Festival in May. While the festival is aimed primarily at older people, all events are open to everyone.

Galway’s major sporting and social festival, The Galway Races, has become the setting for a major new Irish language contemporary comedy drama series - Rásaí na Gaillimhe.