Caltra

Thanks so much.

A new week begins for preschoolers in the rural village of Caltra in East Galway, where childcare places are in short supply.

Oh, there is great demand.

I still get phone calls constantly looking for full-day care, and unfortunately, at the minute, we don't have that facility.

Alongside local parents, Caltra community playschool manager, Helen Melia, has been trying to secure government funding for a new full-day service creche facility.

We've been ready, shovel-ready now for over a year, and we're just waiting to try and get funding for that project.

Torturous would be what I would think of straightaway.

My eldest three-year-old has been on waiting lists since she was a couple months old, in several of the creches around the place, and they've all just told me, "No," they, they still have no availability for her.

We'll also get on to Conor McKenna and another incredible AFL grand final.

Michael can educate us on that and what's happening with Caltra, the Galway Championship, some Formula One, Formula Two, and we'll finish with our sports star of the week.

But I don't think there's much debate this week.

Good morning, Michael.

Yeah, just trying to take a few things in in person.

Obviously, we touched on it later.

Big relegation final for Caltrain.

Glad to say that we came through that one.

the North Galway Mafia

the relegation final Saturday, it's between Letremore and Caltra.

Looking at this one pattern, I suppose it's surprising in one sense to see Letremore here, but just probably things haven't went their way this year.

Unlucky the last day with Darrell Walsh getting that two-pointer laid on.

While for Caltra, obviously, it's just tough to take if they do end up going down after winning intermediate last year.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, it is.

a bit of a habit, unfortunately.

Um, my name obviously is Claire Kilroy, and I'm from Galway.

Um, originally I was, uh, from a tiny village on the east, uh, coast of Galway called Caltra.

Um, and I was, um, I'm now actually living in Oranmore, just outside the city.

Um, so I've always been Galway.

I moved away, uh, to go to college, but I, I grafted back, um, towards Galway when I started to work.

So, um, grew up in a lovely home in, in Caltra, and attended school locally, literally about 100 meters down the road in Caltra National School.

Went on then into secondary school, into, um, Holy Rosary College, Mountbellew, and moved on from there into, uh, home economics and biology teaching.

And, uh, that was in St. Angela's in Sligo.