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Confidence is back with incredible sales in the first two weeks of 2020 as buyers are out in force and bookings being taken in both second-hand private treaty and in new homes. The O’Donnellan & Joyce new homes department has seen a huge increase in activity in the new homes market due to strong demand for modern, energy efficient, homes in newly built housing estates around the city and county. It is an exciting time in Galway as many development lands are being sold to developers who are not holding back when it comes to building some beautiful and highly functional family homes all around the county.

Pádraig Ó Céidigh was appointed to the department of botany in UCG, in the autumn of 1956. He arrived for his first lecture in his typically distinctive style, that would continue to the point of eccentricity, yet he would play a vital role in developing a small department in a prefab laboratory, into one of the leading world class marine science institutions in NUIG today.

JOE BOSKE'S keen eye and sense of humour shines forth gloriously in Buying Yak Milk In Gurtymadden, his new book, published by Artisan House, which will be launched as part of the Clifden Arts Festival.

The next lecture by Westport Civic trust will be on the topic "Tracking environmental change in the lakes and rivers of the Burrishoole catchment."

Win a House in Westport, the first fundraiser of its kind on the west coast of Ireland, has been launched by Westport GAA. This fundraising campaign is offering one lucky person the life-changing chance to win a four-bedroom detached home worth €325,000 for just €100, in the much-loved west of Ireland seaside town.

Galway Irish Crystal has long been recognised as one of the world's best known and loved Irish crystal brands. Each piece of Galway Crystal is inspired by the rugged beauty of the local landscape and by the wealth of folklore and ancient history along the west coast of Ireland.

Students from Rang 2, Scoil Shéamais Naofa, Bearna, got up close and personal with sharks on the RV Celtic Explorer as part of the Marine Institute’s outreach and engagement programme.

A fund of €31 million has been approved for a four-year floating offshore wind project in Belmullet.

Seventy years after Margaret Athy’s generous patronage of the Augustine abbey and buildings on Fort Hill (originally St Augustine’s Hill), with its commanding view of the port and the town, the place was turned into a butcher’s block. Approximately 300 survivors of the ill-fated Armada were beheaded there.