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Country Living with Francis Farragher On one of the dying mornings of January as I listened to Marty Whelan on Lyric FM while stuck in the now inevitable morning traffic jam heading into the Coolagh Roundabout on the east side of Galway city, he said that there always seemed to be around 10 weeks in […]

By EOIN MAHER After almost 50 years and seven generations, the Ford Fiesta will be discontinued this year. On sale since 1976, production costs, a reduction in sales and market changes were cited as reasons for the model’s demise. Originally designed to be frugal and affordable during the 1970s oil crisis, the name ‘Fiesta’ was […]

A Different View with Dave O’Connell With St Valentine’s Day firmly on the horizon, thoughts for some may turn to love and even marriage – which, it transpires, is good for your health but tough on your pocket. Because while one study published this week found that true love generally results in low blood sugar […]

Galway 0-9 Meath 0-9 Ivan Smyth at Páirc Tailteann AOIFE O’Rourke’s 59th minute free helped Galway earn a share of the spoils in a thrilling NFL Division 1 encounter at Pairc Tailteann on Monday. In truth, this was a game Galway were edging for the most part but when Meath kicked three scores in a […]

Galway League 1  Cork League 3 Mike Rafferty at Eamonn Deacy Park THE Galway League’s ambition to follow in the footsteps of the 2010 and 2014 FAI Youth Inter-League winning sides ended in disappointment at Eamonn Deacy Park on Sunday – two late goals sealed their fate as the visitors claimed the title in impressive […]

You wait an eternity for one US President with Galway roots to come along – and then a potential second Galwegian in the White House emerges in quick succession! Because with earlier confirmation of Joe Biden’s roots embedded deep in Ballinacourty, outside Oranmore, now the first official challenger to Donald Trump’s planned renaissance turns out […]

Wexford 0-15 Galway 0-23 A supposedly elite hurling county like Wexford shouldn’t be as accommodating on their home soil. You wouldn’t think looking at the final scoreline that Darragh Egan’s team had the winning of this opening round National League tie on Saturday evening, but they paid a heavy price for a shocking misuse of […]

Complaints about the Emergency Department of University Hospital Galway (UHG) jumped by 55% last year, the Connacht Tribune has learned. During 2021, when strict Covid-19 restrictions were in place at UHG, a total of 80 official complaints were lodged about the West’s main public Emergency Department. But in the following year, official complaints about the […]

World of Politics with Harry McGee It’s now 25 years ago since I first reported on the tensions associated with people arriving to reside in Ireland from abroad, particularly asylum seekers. I was working for The Sunday Tribune at the time and visited a house in Dublin’s Arbour Hill where a lot of immigrants were […]

TO borrow from the old match cliché, January – from a weather viewpoint – was a real month of two halves. We took a serious pounding of rain through the first half   – the second half was very dry  – and during the interval we got a cold snap for four or five days. As […]