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The Athlone to Renmore section of the Dublin-Galway cycleway has been split into two separate projects in a fresh attempt to deliver the long-delayed route.

Waiting outside the office of the Irish Times’ managing director, one might expect a snotty Moneypenny to usher you into a dark, wood-panelled study where a stern Judi Dench as M, in James Bond, will be enthroned at a leathered desk, waiting to receive, with a thousand-yard death stare.

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Peadar O’Dowd’s credentials for writing about Galway were impeccable. One of four children, Nono, Willie, Martin and Peadar, born to their parents John and Bridget, he grew up in Bohermore and was always grateful for the fact. He lived his life there and throughout that life would celebrate the area and its people in hundreds of articles and interviews he published in various newspapers and journals.

For the past year, Advertiser editor Declan Varley was penning a new book charting the personal journey of a lifetime of following his native Mayo. Through disappointments, joy, illness and tragedy, his seminal work is a must-read not just for Mayo fans, but all readers. The following is an extract from the book, outlining how he took upon himself to chart a century of being embroiled in one of the last great sporting odysseys — the hunt to bring Sam back to Mayo.

University of Galway this week announced the recipients of Honorary Degrees at the 2023 Winter Conferring ceremonies which are taking place from until Wednesday November 29, when the Honorary Degree awardees will join more than 3,000 students graduating over six days.

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