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Tuesday November 20, 1984, was a sad day in Galway. It was the day Jimmy Cranny died, and though he had no family, his extended family of many thousands of people he had taught to swim mourned him and marked the passing of a legend. He could be seen at the seashore virtually every evening of the summer for many, many, years teaching children the basics of swimming, and as some of them progressed to competitive swimming, he provided early morning training sessions for them at the canal on a daily basis.

On Tuesday, Seán Canney will discover what junior ministry he will hold as part of the new Fine Gael-Independent Government, but whatever portfolio he is given, he will have to share it with Independent Alliance colleague Kevin ‘Boxer’ Moran.

Athlone Film Club will screen We Are the Best! next Tuesday October 21 at 8pm in the Dean Crowe Theatre.

Members of Athlone Literary Festival will be on hand to dole out free books in Athlone next Tuesday April 23.

LOST CHORD guitarist Eoin Reilly and local DJ Byron Yates will start a new weekly punk and new wave DJ night.

THE GALWAY Art Centre’s next poetry slam is on Tuesday at 7pm in The Ruby Room, upstairs in The King’s Head.

Shrove Tuesday, aka pancake day, is just around the corner, and the Aga shop in Galway is hosting a special pancake party in aid of the Galway Hospice Foundation.

KARNIVAL, ALSO known as a festival, celebration, or Mardi Gras, is coming to Karma Club Galway, on Saturday September 18.