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Galway 2-20 Sligo 0-12 Pádraic Ó Ciardha at MacHale Park IF you wanted to sum up Galway’s performance in Sunday’s Connacht Final in a word, it would be ‘clinical’. Two words? ‘Really clinical’. Whether you need any more than that is debatable but there’s space to fill and let’s enjoy this while it lasts. The […]

A man in his 50s has died following a crash in east Galway this morning. Gardaí have appealed for witnesses following a collision between two vehicles that occurred on the N65 at Moyleen, near Loughrea, at approximately 7.30am. The driver of one of the vehicles, a man in his 50s, was taken to University Hospital […]

MATTHEW Tierney showed his class with an impressive tally of 2-7 – 2-5 from play – in his side’s facile Connacht SFC final triumph over Sligo at MacHale Park on Sunday. The Oughterard man was the toast of the town as Galway eased to a 2-20 to 0-12 win over a Sligo side that showed […]

The Galway Early Music Festival which will take place in the city on Friday and Saturday, May 26 and 27, will celebrate crossroads. “Crossroads are magical,” says the festival’s director Maura Ó Cróinín. “They pose the question of what direction to follow and invite the exploration of new destinations. They are places for music and […]

Galway United 2 Waterford FC 1 START looking for a cabinet maker, and maybe buy a tin of Brasso and stick it in the press in the office off the corridor under the stand, maybe in there behind the staples and envelopes and boxes of black and red biros (the blue ones are hard to […]

Soccer Wrap with Mike Rafferty West United paid the ultimate price on Sunday for a poor start to the season, which had seen them take just four points from their first nine games, when a 2-0 defeat at home to Hibs saw them lose their top-flight status. They will be joined by Corrib Celtic, who were beaten 4-1 […]

A Different View with Dave O’Connell Contactless payments reached a record €17.9 billion in Ireland last year – up by 31 per cent on 2021, as people came out from under their Covid shell and appear to have left their cash behind them. Figures from the Banking & Payments Federation found that – despite the […]

Galway  6-33 Westmeath 0-17 THE Leinster senior hurling championship has become littered with mis-matches since the robin-robin series started, but the chasm between the big guns and the minnows was never more starkly illustrated than at Cusack Park, Mullingar on Saturday evening. This proved a humiliating experience for everyone associated with Westmeath hurling. They were […]

By JOHN FALLON CONNACHT head coach Pete Wilkins said it is a big boost to have all 23 who did duty in Belfast on Friday night available for their trip to Cape Town to take on champions the Stormers in Saturday’s URC semi-final. All 23 came through the bruising 15-10 win over Ulster and Wilkins […]

Arts Week with Judy Murphy The role of the Atlantic Ocean in the African slave trade, which ran between the 16th and 19th centuries and resulted in up to 12 million people being shipped to the Americas to face lives of slavery and degradation, is explored in a new exhibition at Galway Arts Centre. The […]