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1923 Races accommodation The Galway Race Committee has done a good work for the annual meeting and for business in the city by its action in going some distance at least so generally made against our hotels two years ago shall be removed. A number of racing people were actually competing arrangements to run special […]

By Pádraic Ó Ciardha What a difference a year makes. For the second time in 12 months, Limerick got the better of Galway in an All-Ireland semi-final but the manner of the defeats and the feelings they triggered couldn’t be more different. While Henry Shefflin didn’t exactly set the world on fire during his first […]

By JOHN FALLON THERE will be a good sprinkling of Connacht input as Ireland bid to create history by capturing the World Rugby U-20 Championship when they take on France in the final in South Africa on Friday (6pm, Irish time). Four Connacht players are in the squad — two from Galway and two from […]

The South Galway Bay Music Festival is back for its second year, with a three-night event for all ages taking place from July 28-30. The festival is being hosted by Ballinderreen GAA Club and headline acts this year include the Tumbling Paddies, Mike Denver, Gerry Guthrie, Derek Ryan, Johnny Brady, Sum Craic, Sinéad Black and […]

By Pádraic Ó Ciardha NOT for the first time, the Galway senior hurlers won’t have been spared as supporters gathered on high stools and at church gates over the weekend to pick through the latest demoralising championship defeat for the county. ‘Same old Galway’ will have been a popular lament during many of the discussions […]

Arts Week with Judy Murphy Actor Colm Meaney walks through the main door of the Bailey Allen Hall at the University of Galway on a clammy Monday evening looking like a man who’s just done a hard day’s work. And appearances don’t deceive. He and his actress daughter, Brenda, are in the thick of rehearsals […]

By DARREN KELLY FOR the fourth time in six seasons, Galway will meet Mayo in the All-Ireland senior ladies football championship on Saturday (Pearse Stadium, 1:30pm) when they face off in the quarter-final. The Tribeswomen picked up an impressive 5-11 to 0-12 victory at this stage in 2018, before shading their provincial rivals in a […]

Cobh Ramblers 1 Galway United 1 Mike Rafferty at St Colman’s Park SOMETIMES a point won away from home can be seen as a plus but, on this occasion, it was lean pickings as Galway United battered the home side for the majority of this First Division contest at Colman’s Park on Friday night. Matters […]

Lorraine Tuck’s show for this year’s Arts Festival tells the story of a family living with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability. Her two sons have ASD, with the younger boy having profound disabilities. But despite the challenges, theirs is a happy, acitve home as documentary photographer Lorraine captures in this exhibition. It also features her […]

For farmers in the uplands of Connemara, the isolated nature and rugged terrain of most of the farmland in the region, where mobile phone coverage can also be an issue, means that talking about mental health doesn’t come easy. But with the right support, farmers and farm workers can appreciate the importance of taking that […]