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by Una Sinnott

A ballad is a form of verse, a poem or a song that tells a story. It can be considered either poetic or musical and is written in short stanzas with a rhyming system abcb. These forms of folk songs were often anonymous retellings of local legends, stories of particular events or characters.

Extension approved for St Dymphna’s Special School

Many mourners turned out in Salthill recently to bid farewell to Limerick native Christy Fitzgerald.

Galway come up against Westmeath in Mullingar on Saturday looking to confirm at least a place in the preliminary quarter-final of this year’s All-Ireland championship.

After watching Sunday’s thrilling Ulster final, Padraic Joyce finally knows Galway's opponents in the third match of the round-robin series.

The regular use of the words ‘litir’ and ‘post’ in 15th century Irish manuscripts suggests that by that time a postal system was already in existence in Ireland. The English postal system was completely reformed by a man named Witherings in 1638 and he was then invited to do the same in Ireland. By the 1650s, mail was being carried by post boys who walked 16 to 18 miles a day between towns. It is believed the Galway Post Office was set up in 1653 when the Cromwellians were still here. In those early years, the local postmaster was expected to provide the premises, so every time a new postmaster was appointed, it meant a new main Post Office.

By Sarah Gaughran