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Daniel Mac Sweeney, a former International Committee of the Red Cross envoy, will lead a new independent office…

Https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/5xpcqq/minister.mp3 Galway Bay fm newsroom – Children’s Minister Roderick O’Gorman says it’s not possible to put a timeline in place for the excavation at the former Mother and Baby Home in Tuam. The Government today appointed former Red Cross committee member and University of Galway graduate Daniel Mac Sweeney to oversee the operation Mr Mac […]

Https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/5wdn8f/alan_warninga00hk.mp3 Galway Bay fm newsroom – There’s a warning that “lessons must be learned” as the Martin Roundabout works are finally set to cross the finish line in the coming weeks. The project was originally expected to be completed last summer, but the deadline was extended on several occasions. The latest date for the new […]

The classical archaeologist on how the West was spun into a grand narrative

The author of a sweeping re-examination of Western history reveals the global reach of Greek and Roman antiquity

Some years ago, amid the geopolitical turmoil following 9/11, we heard a good deal about the clash of civilizations—about the West against the Rest. As it…

PASS-A-GRILLE — For Zac Sweeney, one octopus sighting was rare enough. But dozens of tiny octopuses, all on one stretch of shoreline? That was something special.

A new book reveals that the modern West owes much of its cultural DNA to a wide range of non-European and non-white forebears

In The West, Naoíse Mac Sweeney argues the traditional ‘Plato to Nato’ narrative has had its day – but this take is hardly original

An archaeologist’s sparkling new analysis of the West and its antagonists, from Herodotus to Tullia d’Aragona to Carrie Lam