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Galway is gearing up for another maritime festival when, for the first time, it hosts a major powerboating event.

Galway is gearing up to celebrate another legacy of the Volvo Ocean Race stopover in June.

A 22-year-old Czech national was remanded in custody at a special court sitting in Galway on Tuesday afternoon in connection with the discovery of a woman’s body near Inverin, Connemara, in the early hours of Monday morning last.

Llyods TSB last week agreed a $22.2 billion deal for HBOS after the company lost half its market value.

Towards the end of the 19th century Colman Greene came from Carna to Galway to work, mostly as a fisherman. He married Julia McGrath from Newcastle and they opened a pub near the Spanish Arch. They also sold tea and sugar and candles, etc, often as provisions to boatmen going out to fish. They had trawlers and fishing boats of their own at the Claddagh, and were fish merchants also.

Mick Flannery

IN A curious way, Barack Obama’s recent presidential campaign has some strange parallels with Daniel O’Connell’s battle for Catholic Emancipation in the 1820s.

For years now the rivalry between County Westmeath’s two biggest towns has been escalating. What has traditionally been friendly banter among the communities is now a full blown scrap as slanderous comments are hurled and mothers are insulted.

The demand for organic food could decrease in Ireland if we consumers follow a similar trend as our British counterparts.

In 1833 the novelist and educationalist Maria Edgeworth and some friends set out on a horse and open carriage tour of Connemara in considerable style. Happily for us because she was an inveterate letter writer, we have today her amusing and sharply observed picture of her adventure, as travel 175 years ago was pretty rough and ready.