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University of Galway has announced the winners of the 2023 Alumni Awards to be presented at a gala banquet on Friday June 16, 2023. The Alumni Awards recognise individual excellence and achievements among the University’s 128,000 alumni worldwide. These awardees are leaders who have demonstrated impact and excellence in their fields on a local, national, and international level.

A virtual town hall meeting organised by Uplift in association with author and Maynooth University lecturer, Rory Hearne, and Galway founded housing festival group, Féile Housing, will take place on April 13 at 7pm.

BY JORDAN LILLIS

An unquestionably enlightening literary discussion, ‘Motherhood and Madness’ will be held on Wednesday, April 5 at 8pm to commemorate the launch of Milk: On Motherhood and Madness by Alice Kinsella. On the night, Alice will be joined by fellow writer Sophie White, and author Una Mannion moderating proceedings.

'Red petticoats, hooded cloaks and trusties. The clothes we wore in tradition and art.' will be the subject of a Westport Civic Trust lecture by Dr Anne O'Dowd in the Plaza Hotel, on Tuesday next March 28.

Crannóg, Galway’s international literary magazine, is launching its 58th issue upstairs at The Crane on Friday, March 31 between 6.30pm and 8pm. The launch will feature readings of poetry and fiction from a selection of contributors.

Home Instead has launched its annual Essential Guide to Ageing Well. The guidebook has been developed through Home Instead’s years of experience in the home care industry in Ireland and around the world.

Women in business from Westmeath, Longford and Leitrim gathered in the Mullingar Park Hotel on March 8 last to celebrate International Women’s Day 2023.

Market rents in County Westmeath were on average 17.3% higher in the final three months of 2022 than a year previously, according to the latest Rental Report by Daft.ie.

Sometime before 1905, John Bagnell Bury, Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, son of a Church of Ireland clergyman, and already one of the most distinguished historians of his time, turned his attentions to St Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland.