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The 2017 Galway Garden Festival will take place on Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd July, at Claregalway Castle. This will be the 8th year of an uniquely charming garden event which caters for specialist and eclectic tastes.

Cheltenham 2017 is just around the corner and Galway punters will be treated to the hottest tips and expert analysis for this year’s festival straight at The Arches Hotel preview night.

Fashionistas, get racing ready, as the Salthill Hotel hosts a Style and Dine Luncheon on Monday July 25 to kick-start the 2015 Galway Races Summer Festival, all in aid of Enable Ireland.

THE IRISH Times award winning social affairs correspondent Kitty Holland will read at the next Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library on Thursday October 29 at 6.30pm.

The Castlebar-based Breadski Brothers will feature on the popular RTE Nationwide programme this Monday, next October 5, as part of National Bread Week. RTE’s Western Correspondent Pat McGrath and a camera crew spent a day last week filming at the busy bakery.

Before Fr Peter Conway was appointed parish priest of Headford, he was a curate in Ballinrobe. His very considerable energies were thrown into building a new church and presbytery. He also succeeded in acquiring a site for the Convent of Mercy and Christian Brothers’ schools in a primary location in the centre of the town. And all may have been well, and the good father praised for his building and organisational skills, and allowed to live in peace, were it not for the Mayo general election of April 6 1857.