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WHO RUNS CONNEMARA? The nine councillors who speak for you at County Hall – and the housing, flooding and ambulance battles on their desksCLIFDEN’S FINEST MEN’S CLUB: Inside the Marconi Men’s Shed – the first in Ireland set up by male carers, where 50 Connemara men build, grow and talkARREST ORDERED: Ex-garda (83) faces jail bid over steel shed turned into a home overlooking Cleggan Bay – after a 10-year planning warLETTERFRACK’S LESSON: ATU Connemara hurlers beaten by city rivals – but they get another big shot at University of Galway next ThursdayTHE VOICES OF CARNA: Joe Heaney, the Uí Fhlatharta siblings and the home-grown sean-nós stars every Connemara person should know‘DARK ARTS’: Dublin boss Ger Brennan reignites Galway sideline row – and says it’s the GAA that’s been ‘brought into disrepute’‘THE BEST LAMB STEW OF MY TRIP’: Visitor raves about Clifden pub’s stew – and sparks Connemara’s great lamb debateFOAL OF A LIFETIME: Renvyle pony bred for a nine-year-old girl tops the foal prices at Clifden – as a €15,000 stallion leads the October salesHOME GROUND: President Connolly makes first official visit to Údarás na Gaeltachta in Furbo as new Gaeltacht data hub goes liveFORE THE WEST! The 7 best golf courses in Galway – from a wild Atlantic links to a forest full of deerWHO RUNS CONNEMARA? The nine councillors who speak for you at County Hall – and the housing, flooding and ambulance battles on their desksCLIFDEN’S FINEST MEN’S CLUB: Inside the Marconi Men’s Shed – the first in Ireland set up by male carers, where 50 Connemara men build, grow and talkARREST ORDERED: Ex-garda (83) faces jail bid over steel shed turned into a home overlooking Cleggan Bay – after a 10-year planning warLETTERFRACK’S LESSON: ATU Connemara hurlers beaten by city rivals – but they get another big shot at University of Galway next ThursdayTHE VOICES OF CARNA: Joe Heaney, the Uí Fhlatharta siblings and the home-grown sean-nós stars every Connemara person should know‘DARK ARTS’: Dublin boss Ger Brennan reignites Galway sideline row – and says it’s the GAA that’s been ‘brought into disrepute’‘THE BEST LAMB STEW OF MY TRIP’: Visitor raves about Clifden pub’s stew – and sparks Connemara’s great lamb debateFOAL OF A LIFETIME: Renvyle pony bred for a nine-year-old girl tops the foal prices at Clifden – as a €15,000 stallion leads the October salesHOME GROUND: President Connolly makes first official visit to Údarás na Gaeltachta in Furbo as new Gaeltacht data hub goes liveFORE THE WEST! The 7 best golf courses in Galway – from a wild Atlantic links to a forest full of deer

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