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Procrastination may stimulate productivity, creativity, and focus in some teens with ADHD.

A Different View with Dave O’Connell It was Christy Moore who famously offered a tenner to St Anthony to help him find some sleep, although that in fairness was in the midst of withdrawal symptoms from the demon drink. Those who suffer from insomnia would empty their bank account into the coffers of the patron […]

GALWAY now has one of the biggest Garda drugs’ units across the country in a bid to tackle what has been described this week as widespread cocaine use across all sectors of society. Chief Superintendent Gerry Roche told Monday’s meeting of the Co. Galway Joint Policing Committee (JPC), that tackling the sale and supply of […]

Galway’s property prices are bucking the national trend by staying flat during the quarter of 2023. That’s according to the latest MyHome.ie Property Price Report, which shows that the median asking price for a property across the city and county as a whole is still €285,000 – which is still a rise of €25,000 over […]

A Different View with Dave O’Connell there’s a wonderful line in Sebastian Barry’s new novel, Old God’s Time, when the main character, retired Garda Inspector Tom Kettle, is thinking back on his younger family days; as it transpires – and this is not giving too much away – they’re all dead now and that’s why […]

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; […]

A Different View with Dave O’Connell Paul Mescal has a lot to answer for – and it’s nothing to do with his Oscar nights or his antics in Normal People. No, it’s his propensity to wear sports shorts completely out of context and season – football togs, in old money – because he has inspired […]

A Different View with Dave O’Connell The shy child was now a woman with a voice that she demands will be heard for the rest of her days, but her photograph in the papers last week brought me right back to the place I’d first met her – and it was in the ashes of […]

A colourful, charitable Galway barman plans to write himself into the Guinness Book of World Records – by visiting and consuming a beverage in 85 local bars in 24 hours! The mammoth pub crawl, on the weekend of March 31 and April 1, will bring Damien Reilly on a tour of Galway’s watering holes. Starting […]

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 […]