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1923 Flogging Bill A crowd of women bearing placards dealing with the Flogging Bill assembled outside Leinster House on Monday about the time the Dáil was re-assembling. Mrs. Despard and Madame Gonne McBride were amongst those present. The assembly of women attracted a good deal of attention and the D.M.P. were requisitioned to keep back […]

Active Travel works currently underway in Roscam have hit another bump in the road as “ugly” bollards installed along the roadside drew the ire of local residents and businesses. There was fury earlier this week as it became apparent red and white bollards were to be installed the length of the Doughiska Road in Roscam […]

Galway 1-20 Tipperary 1-18 ON the law of averages alone, the fabled modern-day hurling rivalry between Galway and Tipperary was due to serve up a sub-standard championship collision and Saturday evening’s All-Ireland quarter-final at the Gaelic Grounds was it. But that will be of little concern to the Galway camp after resurrecting their Liam McCarthy […]

ALDI Athenry will become the retailer’s twelfth Galway store when it opens next Thursday – with a Galwayman at the helm. Store Manager Austin Mahony has worked with ALDI for twelve years at various stores in Galway, including most recently as Store Manager in Portumna. “I live nearby in Oranmore with my wife, Fiona and […]

THE issue of suicide among the farming community needs to be addressed just as importantly as physical farm safety, according to Midlands-North-West MEP, Maria Walsh. Last month the Shrule member of the European Parliament hosted a special event in Brussel which addressed the issue of suicidal ideation (forming the idea) among farmers and their families. […]

Thousands of tonnes of fishing ropes are dumped in the world’s seas annually. Hanneke Frenkel who lives on the North Connemara island of Turbot for much of the year has put some of these washed-up ropes to good use, making rugs from them. After a successful exhibition of her Sea Carpets at last year’s Clifden […]

Country Living with Francis Farragher Maybe, I’m a bit old-fashioned, but back the years we were always given the standard family advice of the time – ‘Not to be cheeky, to show respect for older people, and to do whatever a Guard would tell you’. Those little life mantras didn’t seem to do us any […]

Galway 0-20 Westmeath 0-12 PROBABLY the most consistent Gaelic football team in the country have one foot in the All-Ireland quarter-finals after a storming closing 20 minutes wore down a gallant Westmeath outfit at a sun-splashed Cusack Park on Saturday evening. In recording a ninth championship victory from their last 10 outings, Galway eventually lived […]

A Mayo woman who has worked with ALDI in her native county for the last sixteen years has been named as the manager of the chain’s new store in Ballyhaunis. Charlene Kilgallon is based locally and lives in Claremorris with her family and little daughter Aoife – and she previously worked at ALDI stores in […]

A group of 90 of Ireland’s top entrepreneurs – among them Galwegians Lorraine Heskin from Bearna and John Desmond from Ballinasloe – have returned from Singapore where they recently attended the annual EY Entrepreneur Of The Year CEO Retreat. The delegation included this year’s 24 EY Entrepreneur Of The Year finalists, including Lorraine Heskin, Founder […]