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Jimmy Duggan who passed away this week at the age of 93, was once described as “the best pound-for-pound hurler in Ireland.”

“We were led to believe that from St Patrick to the Book of Kells was this highpoint of Irish history; that after the Vikings and Normans invaded it was all shite and misery until Packie Bonner saved that goal at Italia ‘90. But there were a few good bits in-between, and even though our good bits were epic failures, comedy can be a great pathway to tackle these deadly serious topics.”

On January 15, 1827 two Patrician Brothers, Paul O’Connor and James Walsh, took up residence in Lombard Street and set up the Monastery School. The attendance on that first day was 300 boys, many of whom had little interest in learning because they were poor and hungry. So the Brothers set up The Poor Boy’s Breakfast Institute in May 1830. It continued seven days a week, 365 days a year for many years after the founders' time. The breakfast consisted of porridge with molasses or treacle, and during the Famine, they fed 1,000 boys every day. The ‘Old Mon’ became a vital cog in education in Galway.

On Wednesday 13 July at 8pm, the Susquehanna Chorale from Hersey, Pennsylvania, will give a concert in aid of Enable Ireland. The performance will take place at St Nicholas Collegiate Church, Lombard Street, Galway City.

Funding of almost €250,000 has been announced for the protection and enhancement of 39 historic and protected buildings across Galway city and county.

The commercial market throughout Galway city and the west of Ireland has proven to be resilient throughout 2021. After the initial shock of the pandemic, confidence began to increase in both the investment and commercial market in Q4 of 2020 which followed throughout to Q1 2021. This trend has remained consistent throughout 2021 with strong activity throughout the commercial market as a whole.

The first book printed in Ireland was The Book of Common Prayer in 1551. As printing became more sophisticated, newspapers became inevitable. The first gazettes were published originally in manuscript – the word gazette being derived from gazetto, a coin of Venice, the amount paid for reading the news. The earliest printed newspapers began to appear around the end of the 16th century. These were small, quarto in size, printed on one or both sides of the page, or of four pages containing intelligence of public interest which were variously called 'Books of Newes', ‘Newe Newes’, 'Wonderful Newes', ‘Bloody Newes out of Ireland’, etc.

An online petition has been launched calling for reinstatement of bus services to the Knocknacarra area.

Excitement is building across Galway as the city prepares to receive the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge later this morning.