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GALWAY 2-9 LEITRIM 0-6 Alan Dooley at Tuam Stadium THE final scoreline from Tuesday’s U-20 Connacht football semi-final paints a picture of a comfortable Galway victory in Tuam Stadium, but in truth a brave and committed Leitrim performance forced the home side to dig deep and work their way through some turbulence before eventually kicking […]

By Pádraic Ó Ciardha THE Galway footballers find themselves in Portugal this week on a training camp as Pádraic Joyce and his side look to get one final week of intensive training in before the hustle and bustle of championship begins for them in a little over a fortnight. While their Iberian escape was never […]

THE new €10 million Salmon Weir Pedestrian and Cycle Bridge across the Corrib will be officially opened next month just as the summer tourist season clicks into full swing, the City Council has confirmed this week. ‘Finishing works’ on either side of the structure, which was put in place early last December, are expected to […]

A councillor has cast doubt over the sites identified for thousands of social and affordable homes, pointing out that one had been sold off by Galway City Council last year and two do not have residential zoning. Last week the Land Development Authority (LDA) released a report identifying eight sites in Galway largely in public […]

Galway Musical Society will present its new show next week. Thirty-eight years after it was first established and four years since the group last took the Galway stage, GMS will return to the Town Hall Theatre from next Tuesday to Saturday, April 11-15, with its latest musical, Rent. Rehearsals were taking place for Jonathan Larson’s […]

Athlone Town 1 Galway United 3 Keith Kelly in Athlone GALWAY United’s perfect start to the season continued on Friday night, but John Caulfield’s side had to dig deep to come from a goal down, and then survive a period of sustained pressure in the second half, to make it seven wins from seven and […]

The city’s St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church will be the venue this Friday, April 7, for a short performance, entitled Music for Good Friday. Starting at 5pm, the event will include two works from the Spanish Renaissance; Tomás Luis de Victoria’s Missa pro defunctis (Requiem), dating from 1605, and Alonso Lobo’s Lamentations of Jeremiah which may […]

A second ‘Big Top’ date for the Saw Doctors looks set to be fixed after thousands missed out on tickets for the band’s first Galway Arts Festival gig in almost 20 years. Tickets for the Tuam band’s highly anticipated return to Fisheries Field went on sale on Wednesday at 10am and sold out within 20 […]

Galway’s main public hospitals are short as many as 800 staff, including more than 170 nursing and medical professionals –  described by Galway West TD Noel Grealish as ‘a huge hole in staffing levels’. The Health Services Executive (HSE) has confirmed to the Independent TD that there are currently 455 staff posts vacant at University […]

A new show, SALT, which has been inspired by the stories of people who swim in the sea all year round, is being performed outdoors in Salthill and Kinvara for this year’s Galway Theatre Festival. Incorporating poetry, light, a specially composed soundscape, a community choir and professional performers, it will be a homage to the sea […]