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Four community initiatives have received approximately €23,000 in Heritage Council funding, it has been confirmed.

Nine historic sites in Galway city and county are to benefit from close to €450,000 in grants under the 2022 Community Monuments Fund, it was announced this week.

Local Fine Gael Minister of State, Deputy Peter Burke, has confirmed the award of grants for a wide range of archaeological heritage projects in Westmeath under the Department’s 2022 Community Monuments Fund.

The Decade of Centenaries Programme was initiated in 2012 and complements the on-going programme of annual State commemorations. For 2022, Galway City Council has secured funding of €50,000 for an exciting programme of Decade of Centenaries events. Following an open call in January the City Council has approved a range OF project proposals from community led groups, the Local Heritage Office, the City Museum and local Libraries.

BY DECLAN VARLEY

A new ‘Town Centre First’ policy will revitalise towns across County Mayo and benefit local communities, local politicians have said.

Athlone paid a fond farewell to one of the town’s most familiar faces on Monday morning when PJ ‘Poncho’ Murray was laid to rest.

Fine Gael TD Ciaran Cannon TD has welcomed an announcementby Failte Ireland that the Burren Discovery Loop will go live in January.

THE HERITAGE of bobbin lacemaking, unique to the Headford area, has been celebrated in a dramatic manner, through the creation of the impressive Lace Matrix sculpture in the north Galway town.