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One of the first social events on the Galway Race Week calendar is First Furlong at The Ardilaun hotel in aid of The National Breast Cancer Research Institute.

A charity casino party night will take place at The Ardilaun Hotel on June 28 to raise funds to provide a playground at a city school.

Because of its strategic location, Galway was always an important centre for the military. The original fort in Renmore was known as St Augustine’s Fort and featured prominently in the 1641 rebellion, after which it was abandoned, the purpose for which it had been built having been accomplished.

We know from the old sliotars on exhibition in the folk museum in Turlough near Castlebar that the game of hurling has been played for many centuries, but what of the game of camogie? Two prominent Irish language enthusiasts and cultural nationalists, Máire Ní Chinnéide and Cáit Ni Dhonchadha, were credited with having created the sport while a brother of Cáit, Tadg, was the person who drew up the rules in 1903. So there was always a male presence within the administrative ranks of the sport. The game emanated from the Gaelic League and was dependent on the structures and networks provided by that organisation during the initial expansion of the sport. It was also closely linked with the GAA.

As part of Seachtain na Gaeilge celebrations, the mayoral representative for the City of Galway, Cllr Dónal Lyons will announce the finalists of Gradam Sheosaimh Uí Ógartaigh 2014 at midday today, March 13 at a press event on the ground floor in the Eyre Square Centre, Galway (beside Sails Café).

O’Donnellan & Joyce auctioneers is placing two of Taylor’s Hill’s finest homes under the hammer on March 14.

COMEDY, JAZZ, and dancing will be on the menu at The Ardilaun hotel’s Christmas Cabaret which starts on Wednesday December 11.

When World War I finished and the National Shell Factory on Earl’s Island closed down, the buildings were taken over by the 6th Dragoon Guards who had a reputation for wanton brutality. This was unusual in that most well armed British army units, with few having a role in the intelligence conflict, were rarely attacked during the War of Independence in the west of Ireland. While individual RIC men became defined as ‘good’ or ‘bad’, it was army regiments, rather than individual soldiers, that became so defined.

The Irish National Council of Attention Deficit Disorder Support (INCADDS) will provide a comprehensive introductory and refresher seminar and course on diagnosing and treating patients with ADHD.