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Health, Beauty and Lifestyle with Denise McNamara So, have you maintained your new year’s fitness regime?  The weather hasn’t been the best since Christmas for those evening spurts.  But that hasn’t deterred an army of women and men in high-vis vests from gathering in groups for leisurely jogs across Galway City. In my community centre, […]

A GREEN Party councillor has asked that the option of using farmland to help store water as part of the solution to flooding in the Clifden area should be examined by the consultants engaged in the project. Cllr. Alastair McKinstry told last Friday’s Connemara Area meeting of councillors in County Hall that all options needed […]

Reviving the regular use of Irish in a once-rural Gaeltacht area that’s now part of Galway City is the challenge that is being embraced by An Bruach Thoir. Micheál Ó hAoidh of the organisation tells JUDY MURPHY about building new communities, the importance of tradition and of change – and why he has the best […]

Galway 0-16  Tyrone 0-13 Dara Bradley at Tuam Stadium  The Galway senior footballers recorded their first win of the 2023 National Football League campaign with a workmanlike performance in round three against an underwhelming Tyrone on a wet and windy Sunday in Tuam. Make no mistake, this was a pressure test. Having spurned winning hands […]

Groove Tube with Cian O’Connell The Opacas are a band whose principles lie in collaboration and positivity. The group is made up of talented musicians who had gone years without a steady artistic project, and their commitment to their work now is testament to the message they preach – chase your dreams as quickly and […]

Country Living with Francis Farragher As a child, I remember once being told by my mother, that a certain gentleman farmer just over the road from us was now 40-years of age. To a child of about eight or nine summers, it seemed to be terribly old, as I thought to myself would I ever […]

University of Limerick 4-19     University of Galway   1-13 Mikey Kiely picked the pockets of University of Galway (then NUIG) last year when his late goal sealed the Fitzgibbon Cup final. Last Saturday, in familiar surroundings of the SETU Waterford Arena, the Déise County star went for the more direct approach, clubbing the Galway students […]

Patients were packed like sardines into two Emergency Departments of Galway’s public hospitals this week as the number of people waiting on trolleys soared past 750 so far for February. Management and nurses both issued warnings in separate statements as University Hospital Galway treated 62 patients on trolleys on Tuesday while waiting for beds to […]

A Different View with Dave O’Connell I’ts definitely twenty years ago since the eldest son – now well into his twenties – was celebrating a birthday with a party for all of his little friends and cousins. We were living in Dublin at the time and what appeared to be half the city was packed […]

UG Mystics and Maigh Cuilinn gave their respective top-flight survival hopes a massive boost at the weekend with gutsy wins as the national leagues edge towards the concluding stages. Mystics took the honors in a thriller with Fr Mathews on Saturday afternoon in the university’s sports centre in a game that went to triple-overtime and […]