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•The Galway Lawn Tennis Club hosts an open day on Saturday (June 26) from 12 noon to 5pm. Newcomers can sample the range of facilities available at the Threadneedle Road club, including trying out tennis, squash, and badminton with coaches available for all three sports. The club also offers an extensive range of facilities, including a sauna/steam room, personal training, indoor bowls, pool and table tennis, aerobics, chess, golf outings, and salsa and dance classes. Special membership rates are available on the day. Visitors are asked to bring a pair of runners.

Up to 3,000 competitors and their supporters are to descend on Athlone this weekend, as the first round of national HSE Community Games 2010 finals kick off at AIT.

Nearly 200 competitors from all over Ireland and the UK took part in the HP Galway Chess Open 2008 which was run by the Galway chess club last weekend in the Salthill Hotel.

Kilkenny chess players will compete in three Leinster chess leagues this year.

Large crowds are expected to converge on Ballinrobe this weekend (February 6 to 8) for FebFest – a festival of music and sport. FebFest is built around two major annual events in the Ballinrobe area – the local Musical Society’s eagerly-awaited production of Chess, and the Tim Kelly Engineering Floodlit Cup clash of Mayo and Cavan senior footballers, throwing in at 6.15pm.

The Galway Lawn Tennis Club, the only one of its kind in the county, is hosting an open day on Saturday (June 27) from 12 noon to 5pm.

Galway hosted the Connaught finals of the HSE Community Games team events recently with all five counties represented.

The eighth Galway International Chess Tournament, held at the Salthill Hotel last weekend, was the most successful yet for local chess players with Galway club members winning two of the three sections and collecting nearly €1,000 in prize money.