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The 50 Plus Show, the lifestyle event for people 50 and over, is returning to the Salthill Hotel on May 13 and 14.

Most of the 400 souls who saw Galway United take on Cobh Ramblers in 1997 might have consigned it to the dustbin of memory. But a humdrum night in the First Division sparked something in an impressionable lad from Newbridge making his first pilgrimage to a rainy Terryland.

Ireland’s special The Late Late Show episode, Eurosong, will take place tomorrow evening, serving as the country’s pre-selection for the 2025 Eurovision song contest. Local folk singer-songwriter Reylta has been revealed as one of the six contestants with the chance to compete in this year’s Eurovision, which takes place in Basel, Switzerland this upcoming May.

But for one night only, that is what is happening in the Town Hall Theatre. The dapper Dublin comedian is hosting a night with some of the best funnywomen in Ireland, on Thursday, October 24, to display all their (to borrow a phrase from Ru Paul) charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent.

Bádóirí an Chladaigh, the classic boat-building and training group, has announced the official donation and transfer of the Naomh Bairbre, the world’s largest Galway hooker, back to Galway. The handover ceremony took place in the Claddagh Basin on Saturday, July 20, 2024, attended by the new city mayor, Fianna Fáil councillor Peter Keane, alongside notable community figures.

The Covid-19 pandemic caused devastating social and economic disruption worldwide. The lockdowns, in particular, had far-reaching effects on many crucial aspects of daily life, including people's behaviour.

New mortgage lender MoCo, has been revolutionising the nation's home-loan markets by announcing that it would be prepared to issue mortgages that people can pay off until age 80.

Joseph Owens lived in Glenamaddy with his wife, who was born Annie M Tuohy. They had three children, Dick, Mary, and her twin Joseph (born February 4, 1912), who was known to one and all as Josie. The father died very young. Annie remarried, this time to a man named Doorly, and in 1922, the family bought a four-bay four-storey early 19th century house in Lower Dominick Street from Nora O’Donnell and moved to Galway. Annie was a busy woman, she opened a drapery shop where she designed clothes, made them and sold them in her shop, and she kept lodgers upstairs, all as she was rearing her children.

Waiting outside the office of the Irish Times’ managing director, one might expect a snotty Moneypenny to usher you into a dark, wood-panelled study where a stern Judi Dench as M, in James Bond, will be enthroned at a leathered desk, waiting to receive, with a thousand-yard death stare.

The Small Firms Association (SFA) National Small Business Awards 2024 were this week officially launched by awards patron, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar TD. This year marks the twentieth anniversary of this awards programme which celebrates the achievements of small businesses in Ireland and to recognise the vital contribution of the small business community to the Irish economy.