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A group of friends will trade their heels for runners as they lace up to participate in the Galway Bay Half Marathon on October 5th, 2024.

Galway Rural Development (GRD) are today marking their 30th anniversary with a day of celebration at the Bia-Innovator Campus in Athenry. An invitation has been extended to all former staff, directors, and friends by Chairperson Cllr Pete Roche who will be paying tribute to all those who have made a contribution to the organisation over the years.

As you read this piece this August day,there is someone in this city or county who is awaiting the results of a breast cancer check; someone for whom the watched phone represents both a terror and a salvation. Awaiting that news is the norm for so many every week and every day for so many families. As any family who has been touched by breast cancer will know, the waiting, the diagnosis, the fear are all part of the process. There is the fear of the known and the unknown; the potential that plans carefully honed will have to be shelved. Or not.

The official programme of events for the 50th Dunmore Annual Festival was launched on Thursday, July 25 in Byrnes Bar, Dunmore. The festival will run from August 2 - 11.

Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Patrick O’Donovan has this week met with the chairperson of the newly reformed National Skills Council as a new strategic partnership on skills is forged between the Government, industry, and the social partners.

Analysis of agency records show there were 4,552 referrals to Tusla’s Child Protection and Welfare Service in Galway in 2023, compared to 3,276 referrals in 2018, according to Tusla internal figures.

Siobhán Ní Ghadhra held her first board meeting last week as the newly appointed Chairperson of Údarás na Gaeltachta.

A new project launched in Galway will enable 150 homes to receive free tanks of hot water from surplus renewable energy.

Now that you have completed the Leaving Cert, some of you may have had more time to reflect and think further about your CAO choices and you may possibly change your preferences and therefore want to complete the CAO Change of Mind form. The Change of Mind submission closing date is fast approaching and is closing on July 1, 2024 at 17:00. This online Change of Mind form allows those who have originally applied to a college or university through the CAO to alter or change the course preferences they originally submitted. The CAO Change of Mind form does not allow you to submit a new application if you have not previously applied. The Change of Mind form allows you to remove or reorganise your previous choices or add new courses with the exception of ‘restricted application’ courses. There is a list of these available at www.cao.ie.

The names of hundreds upon hundreds of Palestinian children who have been murdered in Israel’s relentless assault on the tiny Gaza Strip since October were read out at a poignant vigil in Galway on Saturday afternoon.