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Groove Tube with Cian O’Connell Having drip-fed the singles from his new EP since early February, Derek Ellard’s first project in two years is set to come to full fruition this weekend. It is a lush and dynamic record, with its five songs offering a perfect representation of Derek’s style and approach to songwriting. There […]

ONE driver on the M6 motorway near Oranmore set an unenviable record last Friday during National Slow Down Day – clocking up a speed of 161km/h (100mph), the highest recorded in the country. The motorist was 41km/h over the 120km/h legal speed limit, but Gardaí have stressed that only a tiny percentage of motorists were […]

World of Politics with Harry McGee The Ditch is an unusual creature on the Irish media landscape. It’s an investigative website which has specialised in exposing politicians and political operators who have made public declarations about their interests that don’t stand up to scrutiny.  The Ditch has made its name for intensive detailed investigations into […]

THE IFA is seeking an urgent meeting with Minister for Agriculture, Charlie McConalogue, over Department proposals to delay this year’s farm scheme payments by up to four weeks in cases. National and regional IFA representatives have this week called on Minister McConalogue ‘to come out of hiding’ on the issue and to give a guarantee […]

Cork 1-18 Galway 3-10 DARREN KELLY IN NENAGH THE conclusion wasn’t without confusion last Sunday in the All-Ireland minor camogie semi-final but when the full-time whistle blew, Galway’s dreams of making the decider fell two points short to Cork. With the Tribesgirls chasing down a match saving goal, officials indicated that Galway had an extra […]

By Jonathan Browne IT was pandemonium at Leisureland in Salthill on Friday night as hometown boy Kieran Molloy won convincingly on his return to Galway by an unanimous decision after an eight-round contest with Colombian Fernando Mosquera. It was the first professional boxing show in Galway since 2009 and the sell-out crowd at Leisureland proved […]

By Bernie Ni Fhlatharta Many dream of writing a book; indeed many do write a book, but few get published. But Galway woman Michelle McDonagh achieved that dream last week with the publication of her novel, There’s Something I Have To Tell You, a story that starts with a gruesome discovery that eventually unravels some […]

Actors Colm Meaney and Brenda Meaney are teaming up for a new production of Enda Walsh’s two-hander Bedbound, which will be staged in Galway this July and at Dublin’s Olympia Theatre in August. This revival, a co-production between Landmark Theatre and Galway International Arts Festival, is directed by Marc Atkinson Borrull while the characters of […]

Galway United 6 Bray Wanderers 0 THERE is a beautiful brutality to Galway United this season as John Caulfield’s side dispatched Bray Wanderers with nonchalance on Friday to complete the first round of games of the season with a 100% record. It was a meeting of the top two, and there really wasn’t a whole […]

AROUND 10pm tonight, Mundy and Sharon Shannon’s rendition of Galway Girl will be blasted out over the sound system as local lad Kieran Molloy enters the ring at Leisureland in Salthill. Billed as ‘Galway Rising’, and a homecoming for the former Oughterard Boxing Club talent who turned pro last year, Molloy’s bout against Columbian Fernando […]