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Artist and national treasure Don Conroy will be at The Lodge at Ashford this October to host a weekend painting workshop.

A Galway couple have won a once-in-a-lifetime prize of a luxury wedding at the Virginia Park Lodge in County Cavan.

A new online farmers market launched this week in Connemara. Called NeighbourFood, this is a fresh new way to do your weekly shop. Its aim is to create a link between local producers and local people, and it will run every week at An Tulach in Baile na hAbhann, next door to TG4.

IF YOU spend your day contemplating family, Irish history, commercialisation of the arts, politics, globalisation, stoats, Greta Thunberg, and homeopathic underarm deodorant, then Retreat!, a new audio comedy series, might just be for you.

This year Enniscoe Organic Garden near Crossmolina, one of the oldest in the country, will be celebrating 25 years as a certified organic garden. Certification is carried out annually by the Organic Trust in Ireland.

GMIT has an international reputation for offering industry-relevant courses to the tourism industry since opening in 1972, so it may come as no surprise to hear that the institute's Galway International Hotel School has been listed by global publication The Education Magazine as one of the top 10 hospitality management institutes worldwide.

GMIT has an international reputation for offering industry-relevant courses to the tourism industry since opening in 1972, so it may come as no surprise to hear that the institute's Galway International Hotel School has been listed by global publication The Education Magazine as one of the top 10 hospitality management institutes worldwide.

GMIT has an international reputation for offering industry-relevant courses to the tourism industry since opening in 1972. It may come as no surprise to hear that The Galway International Hotel School in GMIT has been listed in the Top 10 Hospitality Management Institutes worldwide by global publication Education.Com

In a world where each new day seems to bring increased uncertainty, we can be sure that Thomas Hardy did not have the Galway races of 2020 in mind when he penned the title of his 1874 novel, Far From The Madding Crowd, but that is the phrase that came to mind earlier this week when arriving at Ballybrit for the annual extravaganza that is The Galway Racing Festival.

What is a nation if its citizens cannot hang over the buffet station with a hangover? Or stand at the juice machine topping up the glass until just the pips remain. What sort of life awaits if the joy of pub socialising has to be accompanied by the forced consumption of a carvery dinner, which you throw back while looking at your reflection of a perspex screen. What chance have you of getting an extra ball of mash if you are not there yourself, urging the chef, go on, go on, yes....and all the veg. Potatoes, chips, roast and mash please...