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Leading Galway property expert DNG Maxwell Heaslip & Leonard is offering to the market No 147 Rosan Glas, a three storey residence located in the Rahoon area of Galway city. Built in 2006, this outstanding O’Malley built home is being offered to the market by way of public auction on Friday November 21 in the Radisson Hotel, and the selling agent is expecting a lot of interest in this prime property.

O’Donnellan & Joyce’s last auction of the year, which will be held on December 12 in the Harbour Hotel, is expected to attract enormous interest from buyers, particularly investors and first time buyers, as it will be the last opportunity for investors to acquire properties with the Government tax incentive whereby those holding a property for seven years will be exempt from capital gains tax on any profit made on disposal of the property.

Galway Diary received the following statement from Adrian Martyn (great-great-great grandnephew of Peter Doherty, senior), who was shot dead at Carrigan, near Craughwell village on the night of November 2 1881. I am pleased to carry Adrian’s clarification:

There was good news for the current and future pupils of Coosan NS this week as plans for their 16 classroom school, including a special needs unit, has been given the OK by planners at Westmeath County Council.

In the last number of weeks a few big GAA stories have escaped inches in my column because of the drama in the drawn All-Ireland semi final between Mayo and Kerry, the subsequent replay, and last but by no means least, the performance of the referee in that replay. I am putting that to bed now. You have to take your hat off to Jim McGuinness, his philosophies, and his way of thinking. He has his team so well fine tuned it borders on professionalism. He had a five day training camp prior to the Dublin game and the same again in the lead up to Sunday’s All-Ireland final. This all comes at a considerable cost, and along with some players being flown from Dublin to Donegal by helicopter for training it must mean some very generous individual or individuals are bank rolling it (that is of course if it is all true).

The second round of games in the Connacht Rugby Junior A League last weekend saw both of the Mayo teams in the top division go down to defeats. After grabbing a late win in round one the previous week against Ballinasloe, Ballina went down 33-17 away to Monivea last Sunday afternoon. The north Mayo men were trailing by 11 at the break and did manage to haul themselves to within a converted try at one stage in the second half, but they were not able to pull themselves back on terms.

Galway Taxis has improved its mobile app to allow customers to register a debit or credit card for app bookings. This gives the customers the choice when booking a taxi to pay by cash or card.

An Irish-owned hotel management company has purchased Breaffy House Resort for an undisclosed sum and secured 120 full- and part-time jobs at the 90 acre, 230 room complex.

A series of seminars aimed at helping small businesses to access finance will begin next month.

Bank of Ireland has this week launched a range of new flexible loans, AgriFlex, specially targeted at supporting the development of Ireland’s agricultural sector. These flexible new loan products have been developed to support farmers during times of commodity price volatility and the potential impact these can have on farmer income.