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From Galway to the World is the title of Music for Galway’s strategy for the next three years as the organisation continues to extend its reach while providing access to top-quality classical and contemporary music here in Galway. The initiative was launched this Wednesday in the city’s PorterShed a Dó. “The title of the strategy […]

Galway United   1 Longford Town 0 Keith Kelly at Eamonn Deacy Park IT is six of the best from Galway United on Friday night as Darren Clarke got one over on the club he joined United from in the off-season when his cross was deflected past visiting goalkeeper Jack Brady by Viktor Serdeniuk for […]

GALWAY United’s perfect start to the season sees them up at the top of the pile and there to be shot at, but assistant manager Ollie Horgan says that is exactly the kind of pressure all at the club were hoping for heading into the season. The Tribesmen have won their first six games of […]

Vocalist and artist Ceara Conway is collaborating with musicians Kevin Murphy (cello), and Ultan O’Brien (viola, fiddle) of Slow Moving Clouds, and Anna Mullarkey, (piano, electronics) to present a live performance of her album, CAOIN. The event will take place in An Taibhdhearc next Thursday, April 6, at 8pm. Ceara, who is from an Ceathrú […]

A Different View by Dave O’Connell The first home I ever bought cost me £34,000; it was a brand new three-bed semi-detached bungalow in a new estate in the Cork city suburb of Rochestown. Apart from the first-time house buyer’s grant of £2,000, I hadn’t a penny left for furniture or fittings, but what matter; […]

World of Politics with Harry McGee For a period of 30 years between 1981 and 2016 – with a small break in the eighties – Labour held a seat in Galway West. After making the breakthrough in 1981, Micheal D. Higgins retained his seat in the first election of 1982 but lost it that November, […]

1923 Capital of Connacht Retail shopkeepers in County Galway towns complain very justly that they have to go to Dublin and cross-Channel for their goods, whereas in the all too few instances in which they can purchase in the county town at wholesale rates, they find they can do much better as to price and […]

GALWAY farmers have been advised to ‘shop around; buy only what they need; and to consider buying in bulk from the North’, as they consider purchasing fertiliser over the next couple of weeks. Farm representatives said this week that the overall downward price trend for fertiliser was continuing — both internationally and nationally — but […]

Inside Track with John McIntyre LITTLE did we think that when Galway and Mayo fought out an absorbing draw in the opening round of the National League at MacHale Park last January that the great Connacht rivals would end up contesting the Division One final at Croke Park on Sunday. And there is no fluke […]

There were over 200 complaints from Galway to the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman over the course of 2022, according to the annual report published last week. The Ombudsman, Liam Sloyan, received 207 complaints from Galway residents during 2022, as his office delivered outcomes worth over €5 million to consumers in 2022. “In addition to […]