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On this day, 50 years ago, Druid Theatre Company opened their first production, ‘The Playboy of the Western World’ in the Jesuit Hall on Sea Road. The following evening they staged “It’s a two foot six inches above the Ground World” and on the third night it was “The Loves of Cass Maguire”. It was an ambitious beginning.

Catherine’s life is changed the moment she discovers her husband dead, alone and motionless inside their glasshouse. What unfolds over the following days is a raw exploration of grief, financial hardship, isolating rural loneliness, and a fierce emotional awakening that challenges everything she thought she knew.

In 1965, the Galway Arms Golf Society was formed in the pub of that name on Dominick Street with the blessing of the owners, Jimmy and Nancy Coen. The idea of forming a society was Tommy Donnelly’s who, for his troubles, became its first secretary. Jimmy Coen was elected the first president, Finbarr O’Mahony as treasurer and Paddy Noonan as club captain.

Two Galway women are taking on a gruelling, week-long Arctic challenge to raise funds for the Irish Heart Foundation and increase awareness of the risk of heart disease and stroke in women.

The 16th of October 2016 is etched indelibly onto Olive Foley's memory. It is a day she will never forget. 

Galway’s Blas na Samhna festival has proven the power of collaboration may be the key in the battle to support Galway’s food and hospitality scene. The November month-long celebration of food, culture, and community has not only boosted individual businesses but highlighted the transformative impact of a connected food network working together to celebrate the richness of Galway’s culinary heritage.

John O’Dowd got the inaugural juvenile soccer league (for boys under-16) underway in Galway in 1931-2. The clubs competing included; Crusaders, Hotspurs, Reds United, Emmetts, Unknowns, Bective Rangers and Hibernians. The swamp was the only soccer pitch available in Galway at the time. The league was a big success and this prompted the organisers to run a minor league in the 1932-33 season.

Playing in a senior All-Ireland final in either football or hurling is a very special occasion. It is one an individual never forgets and one that many youngsters dream of, as they kick or puck a ball of sliotar off their gable wall at home, or at the local ball wall.

Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water as a form of recreation, exercise or survival. It has numerous health benefits and is good for all ages and all levels of fitness. It is among the top public recreational activities. One can swim in the sea, the lake or river.