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Country Living with Francis Farragher WE all get attached . . . nay, even dependent . . . on our technology devices, most notably the mobile phone, but here and there the technology does spook me a bit. A couple of weeks ago, as I sat into my car one evening as I prepared to […]

Soccer Wrap with Mike Rafferty Mervue United shocked Salthill Devon in last year’s Michael Byrne Cup final to derby Victor Collins’ side a hat-trick of trophies, with the Seasiders having already won the league and Connacht Junior Cup. Twelve months on, there was no sign of an upset on Tuesday night when they met in […]

Longford Town  1 Galway United   0 Keith Kelly at Bishopsgate ALL good things must come to an end and so it was on Monday evening as Galway United surrendered their 100% start to the season on a pitch off the side of the Strokestown Road a couple of miles outside Longford. Taking the emotion […]

Twitter user asked people to edit her picture and remove a guy from the background and the responses are hilarious.

John ‘Turps’ Burke was a co-founder and key member of the Saw Doctors until he left the band in 1993. When he began dealing with the trauma of being sexually abused as a child, other doors opened for him. A quantum therapist and EFT Master, who has survived a heart attack and cancer, John now […]

Residents and businesses in the city centre were left without water on Wednesday morning after contractors carrying out “upgrade works” between High Street and Shop Street struck a watermain. Affected hairdressers, publicans, and restaurateurs were “in a state of panic” as the taps ran dry, according to a local councillor, who said there had been […]

White Noise, an original work created by the dancers of Youth Ballet West on the theme of noise in our lives, will be staged in Druid’s Mick Lally Theatre on Saturday, May 13, at 7pm and on Sunday, May 15, at 5pm. This is a newly-devised contemporary ballet from the teenage dancers of Youth Ballet […]

By DARREN KELLY THE first of this year’s provincial finals presents Galway with the opportunity to win back-to-back Connacht crowns for the first time in 20 years on Sunday (MacHale Park, Castlebar, 1.45pm) when they take on Sligo. With the new-look championship draw generating interest, the Tribesmen and the Yeats County will focus on taking […]

WITH their place in next season’s Champions Cup all but assured after the result in both Challenge Cup semi-finals went their way last weekend, Connacht head to Ravenhill this Friday looking to extend this season when they take on Ulster in the first of the weekend’s league quarter-finals (7.35pm). With the Scarlets and Benetton both […]

An award-winning play about the experiences of a Garda officer and an RUC officer patrolling the Border at the height of the Irish conflict is being performed this week as part of Galway Theatre Festival. Green and Blue, produced by radical Belfast theatre company Kabosh, is being staged in Druid’s Mick Lally Theatre from this […]