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Smart cameras on our roads to detect and deal with dangerous driver behaviour will play a significant role in reducing crashes and fatalities, Senator Seán Kyne has predicted.

A public presentation by Brendan Smith on ‘how a Corrib pedestrian-cycling bridge within a National Park City designation could transform Galway city’ will be held at 1:00pm next Wednesday, February 25, in the Galway City Museum.

Councillor Thomas Welby has reacted to TV coverage of new entrants into the Galway West by-election.

Platform94, the west of Ireland’s largest innovation hub, has announced a new international partnership with Sister, Manchester’s £1.7bn innovation district, establishing a dedicated Manchester base for Irish scaling companies through a Memorandum of Understanding between the two organisations.

Kettama, the Galway-born DJ who is currently a globally influential techno producer in London, will headline a major Irish festival this summer.

All winter long in my childhood, our three lake boats lay like part of the furniture of the yard — upturned shapes against the shed wall, collecting frost and leaves, holding their silence. They were parts of our livelihood in those lean mean seventies, though as children we thought of them as playthings. From October to February they hibernated, dripping dry after months of wave and rain, their floorboards stacked indoors nearby, their oars resting like folded arms. I often imagined them talking to one another in the dark — trading stories of sudden squalls, of rocks struck in shallow bays, of whispered confidences between gillie and angler, of trout that flashed silver in the half-light before lying still on the ribs beneath the boards.

A judge this week adjourned the trial of three Pro-Palestinian activists, including two from Galway, concerning an alleged incursion at Shannon airport until the Supreme Court rules on a “legal point of public importance” relevant to the defence in the case. At Ennis Circuit Court, Judge Francis Comerford told the three accused that if the trial proceeds he could be asking the jury to decide the case “on the basis of law that might not in fact be the correct law”.

The summer of 2022 marked a watershed in the life of 34-year-old "Sarah" who worked at a large firm in Michigan in the United States. That was when her career really took off. She was given more responsibility (taking charge of three departments), was included in important meetings, and even got a 25 per cent pay rise.

Sunday night movies begin at 8pm, Monday's at 7.30pm.

The Athy family is of great antiquity in Galway. According to Hardiman they were “From the earliest times highly respectable." They are descended from Gerard de Athee who was born in France at Athee sur Cher. He was a well-known knight and military leader for Richard the Lionheart, King of England.