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In recognition and sincere appreciation of his outstanding contribution and service to rugby in Athlone and beyond, Leo Galvin was granted Honorary Life Membership of Buccaneers Rugby Football Club at a recent full-house pre-match function in The Bounty.

Baboró has been named “Business of the Year” at the Galway Chamber Business Awards 2023, in association with The Shannon Airport Group. They were recognised for their work with ”the little people“ of Galway and the West if Ireland and in inspiring future generations on the importance of art, culture and creativity.

At a packed-out Station House Theatre in Clifden last week, the Connemara community paid tribute to Dr Brendan Flynn who has driven the Clifden Arts Festival into its 47th year.

The archive of former civil rights activist, founding member of the SDLP, politician and economist Hugh Logue is being made available at University of Galway.

Chef, restaurateur, author, playwright, founder and businessman JP McMahon has been announced as the Galway Chamber of Commerce President’s Award nominee in association with PwC. The award is presented to someone who has had an exceptional impact on Galway City, the region and their sector.

Galway City Mayor, Eddie Hoare and the President of Galway Lions Club, Frank O’Neill helped The Galway Lions Club launch its Christmas Appeal and annual Radio Auction with John Morley at the Galway Bay FM Studios.

After a summer run including sold-out shows in the Marquee, Cork; King John’s Castle, Limerick; Dublin’s Iveagh Gardens, Galway Arts Festival, and a special performance at Áras an Uachtarain for President Michael D Higgins and guest, Bell X1 are readying themselves to get back indoors this winter.

It is not often that the one story dominates all the world’s headlines. We got a sense of it a few years back when we were all under the curse of Covid. For the first time, perhaps ever, the entire globe was at the mercy of the one ailment; the entire global news cycle carrying the same, but localised versions of the same story. We all had variations of the one restrictions; we lived our lives in the manner that the regulators dicated.

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.

by Claire Murphy