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Galway 1-12 Cork 0-12 Eanna O’Reilly at Kenny Park THE Galway senior camogie team opened their 2023 championship campaign with a narrow victory over Cork at a sun-drenched Kenny Park on Saturday, to keep a dominant recent record over the Rebels intact. Cathal Murray’s side certainly have the Indian sign over Cork at senior level, […]

1923 Cancer campaign After tuberculosis, cancer takes the greatest toll on human life in these islands. A serous effort is about to be made in England to grapple with the disease and an appeal has been issued for £1,000,000 to be expended in research work. Medical men are optimistic enough to hope that as a […]

A Different View with Dave O’Connell It was back in the early days of the technological revolution in newsrooms when one intrepid sports reporter found that the keyboard of his computer worked no more. No matter how hard he thumped them, the keys simply wouldn’t depress, and the little green cursor remained pulsing but stationary […]

Inside Track with John McIntyre WELL, is anyone out there tempted to back Galway to pull off the All-Ireland hurling and football double for the first time ever? In nearly 43 years at the Tribune, the thought has never crossed my mind before until now. Given that the hurlers have only won five All-Ireland senior […]

When historian John Cunningham was initially approached about producing a book to commemorate the 200th anniversary of James Hardiman’s renowned History of the Town and the County of Galway, he wasn’t sure he wanted to do it. The idea had come from an Australian academic publisher who was interested in expanding to this side of […]

It was the end of an era for Aran’s lifeboat volunteers when long serving Coxswain John O’Donnell retired last week – after 21 years saving lives at sea off the west coast. Born and raised on Inis Mór on the Aran Islands, John has been Coxswain at the lifeboat station since 2003. And for his […]

Corofin United 4 Cois Fharraige 0 Mike Rafferty at Eamonn Deacy Park BASED on statistical evidence this Joe Ryan Cup final produced a comprehensive victory for Corofin United, but at Eamonn Deacy Park on Wednesday night, the evidence on the pitch was less clear cut as Cois Fharraige certainly gave as good as they got […]

Clare 2-22 Galway 4-11 ALL-Ireland finals tend to be a different beast to every other game. The build-up is bigger, the hype is greater, there is more pressure, not forgetting having to perform before the largest crowd of the championship. Not alone had Galway minor hurlers to handle all of that, they also had to […]

Groove Tube with Cian O’Connell He’s the Irish-speaking Conamara DJ who is no stranger to the international stage, but long before that Cóilí Collins had already long championed Irish nationalism as an expression of diversity, inclusion and     progressive thinking. And when it came for a frontman to help shine a light on some of the […]

World of Politics with Harry McGee Leo Varadkar once said that he would retire from politics at the age of 50. When he said it, my reaction was: ‘nah, that’s not possible, he’s never going to do that.” But politics has changed. What was once seen as a profession for life – or as long […]