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Galway’s 350-year old link with Gyor continues with gratitude for gift

Galway Cathedral has welcomed the gifting of a painted replica of the revered 'Weeping Virgin Mother of Gyor' painting, graciously presented to the Diocese of Galway by His Excellency Bishop András Veres of Gyor, Hungary, on a recent visit to Ireland.
Superbly located detached home comes to market with DNG

No 14 Friars Hill is a wonderful three bedroom detached home, located just off Bishop O’Donnell Road in a highly sought-after residential estate. This area is well serviced with all amenities readily accessible, to include local shops, supermarkets, cafes, schools and recreational areas, in addition to local sporting facilities and clubs.
October cheer fest for city and county

The Galway Comedy Festival has revealed an ambitious line-up for its latest bout of autumnal amusement from October 22, to October 28, and this year it will break out of the city to what lies beyond.
Relics of Little Bernadette, the visionary of Lourdes, coming to Galway

The Diocese of Galway, Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora and the Diocese of Clonfert together with Bishop Michael Duignan will welcome relics of Little Bernadette, who had eighteen encounters with the Blessed Virgin Mary, to the West of Ireland.
St Nicholas’ Parochial School

This Church of Ireland school is situated in Waterside beside the courthouse and the Town Hall, The earliest existing school records date back to 1901 to the Model School which was situated on Upper Newcastle Road. It had opened in 1852 with 400 pupils, many of whom were Catholics. This proved too much for the then Catholic bishop who set out to make way for explicitly Catholic education in Galway. He invited the Mercy Sisters and the Patrician Brothers to set up schools here and made it a ‘reserved sin’ for Catholic parents to send their children to the Model School. This resulted in 199 pupls withdrawing and meant the end of multi-denominational education in the city.
Galway Cathedral

The first bishop of the Diocese was George Browne (1831-1844). He was followed by Lawrence O’Donnell (1844-1855); John McEvilly (1955-1883); Francis Carr (1883-1888); Francis McCormack (1888-1908); Thomas O’Dea (1908-1923); Thomas Doherty (1923-1936); and Michael Browne (1937-1976).
Diocese needs ‘time and space’ to decide on Bishop Casey’s interment

The Galway Diocesan Office has said this week that it needs “time and space” before making any decision on whether to move Bishop Eamonn Casey’s remains. The office — which represents the Catholic Diocese of Galway, Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora — issued a statement at the weekend in response to calls for the disgraced former bishop of Galway to be removed from the crypt at Galway Cathedral.
Calls made for remains of Bishop Casey to be reinterred away from Galway Cathedral crypt

Over two days this week RTÉ Radio 1’s LiveLine programme was bombarded with callers demanding that the remains of former Bishop of Galway Eamonn Casey should be removed from their place of honour beneath Galway cathedral.
Galway City honours Irish men and women who died in past wars or on UN service

The Mayor of the City of Galway, Councillor Peter Keane, and Elected Members of Galway City Council participated in a moving remembrance ceremony to honour the Irish men and women who died in past wars or on service with the United Nations Peacekeeping, at the Galway City ceremony for the National Day of Commemoration in the University of Galway on Sunday.
Planned €12m Salthill swimming pool “not for swimming”

When is a swimming pool not for swimming? When it is a multi-million euro renovation project to re-open an old tidal swimming spot in Salthill, obviously.