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A total of 74 students have been awarded sports scholarships from the Technological University of the Shannon (TUS) this academic year.

The Kingfisher Club summer camps are back this year with an action-packed summer sports camp in Kingfisher NUI Galway and exciting swim camp in Kingfisher Renmore for boys and girls aged between four and 13 years. The summer camps provide a fun, exciting, and safe way for your child to spend the school holidays this summer while making new friendships and unforgettable memories.

The Galway Camogie team received 12 nominations for this year’s All Stars. Congrats to Sarah Healy, Shauna Healy, Sarah Dervan, Dervla Higgins, Caitriona Cormican, Siobhán Gardiner, Emma Helebert, Niamh Kilkenny, Aoife Donohue, Siobhán McGrath, Orlaith McGrath, and Ailish O’Reilly. And the Galway manager Cathal Murray has been named the Manager of the Year. A mighty year’s work.

Croke Park on All-Ireland final day. There is not many places a Gaelic Football fan would prefer to be. Whether it is in August, September or even December of any given year, the GAA fan will always want to be in attendance.

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Ninety years ago, on August 2, 1931, the world famous long-distance swimmer, Miss Mercedes Gleitz, attempted to swim from the Aran Islands to Salthill. She did in fact manage to swim from Inis Meán to Spiddal in 18 hours 43 minutes, a distance of 18 miles as the crow flies, but it was estimated that with currents, etc, she covered a distance of nearly 30 miles. Two days later she gave a swimming demonstration in Salthill and presented a cup to the Chamber of Commerce to be presented to the school in the county which presented the greatest number of swimmers in relation to its student numbers. She stimulated a lot of interest in the sport, which had received a terrific boost just a few months before with the formation of two clubs, Blackrock Swimming Club and Galway Swimming Club. This guaranteed competition between the clubs and quickly helped raise standards.

Stephen Coen was marked out from an early age as someone who could make it in the game at the top level.

The annual Frances Thornton Memorial Galway Bay Swim in aid of Cancer Care West which is now in its 16th year will be taking place throughout the month of August.

Farm Tours and Oyster Picnics serving up a Taste of the Atlantic

One of the few disadvantages for those of us fortunate enough to live in the West of Ireland is that we rarely get a chance to stay in a local hotel, as a tourist. That is likely to change this summer, as we will be encouraged to holiday closer to home, and many of us have ruled out foreign travel until 2022 at the earliest.