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Compensation for medical negligence and adverse incidents in Saolta University Healthcare Group reached a ten-year high last year, when payments of more than €76 million were made to claimants – including patients. Saolta, a seven-hospital group in the West and North West, made compensation payments totalling more than €323m in the past ten years, but […]

Inside Track with John McIntyre IN a Connacht context, nearly all the hype has been about Mayo and Galway footballers in 2023, but those great party poopers Roscommon have done it again by sending the new Division One League champions packing in their own backyard at a rain-lashed MacHale Park in the provincial quarter-final on […]

Galway 1-23 Kilkenny 0-13 John McIntyre at Nowlan Park GALWAY minor hurlers have been the scourge of their Kilkenny counterparts over the past six or seven years and that trend continued at Nowlan Park on Saturday. Coming into this Leinster round-robin championship fixture, the Cats must have been almost desperate to end their bad run […]

A Gaeltacht community in Joyce Country is offering a large house rent-free for a year to a family with children of primary school age who are willing to relocate – in a desperate effort to boost enrolment. Scoil Naomh Pádraig in An Chloch Bhreac (Cloghbrack) outside of An Fhairce (Clonbur) needs to recruit several more […]

Health, Beauty and Lifestyle with Denise McNamara Breda Fallon was reeling from the death of husband Pat five years ago in the Galway Hospice. It was a terrible shock for their three children, but it hit her 14-year-old son particularly hard.   The retired teacher who spent 40 years at Mervue Primary School searched around for […]

Dublin   1-19 Galway 1-17 IT’S gone from one extreme to another but Galway U20 hurlers were left counting their blessings that there has been such a radical change to the running of the Leinster championship in 2023. Otherwise, this shock defeat to a resilient and cohesive Dublin outfit in Birr on Saturday would have […]

World of Politics with Harry McGee In the early days of the European Economic Community, Ireland had 22 MEPs. When we first joined in 1973, they were all TDs and Senators who were elected, or essentially co-opted, by their peers. They could also retain their day jobs in the Dáil or Seanad, which made the […]

Wexford FC 0 Galway United  4 HISTORY was made on Friday night as an utterly dominant Galway United made it eight wins on the spin for the first time in the club’s history to swat away the challenge of Wexford FC on a beach of a pitch at Ferrycarrig Park. John Caulfield’s side are now […]

1923 – Deadly attack A desperate conflict took place between Irregulars and National troops stationed at Headford on Sunday morning when an attack was opened by about thirty Irregulars at 5.10 o’clock, a.m., in broad daylight. The dead are John Higgins, Ballytrasna, Tuam, who was killed during the fight; Company Sergt.-Major M. McCarthy and Volunteer […]

THE Minister for Agriculture, Charlie McConalogue, has been called upon this week to ‘dip into’ the Brexit Adjustment Reserve (BAR) to put some kind of financial floor under the ailing sheep sector. Co. Galway IFA Chair, Stephen Canavan, said the IFA had suggested to the Minister that he consider access the BAR funds to prevent […]