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Thousands of tonnes of fishing ropes are dumped in the world’s seas annually. Hanneke Frenkel who lives on the North Connemara island of Turbot for much of the year has put some of these washed-up ropes to good use, making rugs from them. After a successful exhibition of her Sea Carpets at last year’s Clifden […]
Country Living with Francis Farragher Maybe, I’m a bit old-fashioned, but back the years we were always given the standard family advice of the time – ‘Not to be cheeky, to show respect for older people, and to do whatever a Guard would tell you’. Those little life mantras didn’t seem to do us any […]
Galway 0-20 Westmeath 0-12 PROBABLY the most consistent Gaelic football team in the country have one foot in the All-Ireland quarter-finals after a storming closing 20 minutes wore down a gallant Westmeath outfit at a sun-splashed Cusack Park on Saturday evening. In recording a ninth championship victory from their last 10 outings, Galway eventually lived […]
A Mayo woman who has worked with ALDI in her native county for the last sixteen years has been named as the manager of the chain’s new store in Ballyhaunis. Charlene Kilgallon is based locally and lives in Claremorris with her family and little daughter Aoife – and she previously worked at ALDI stores in […]
A group of 90 of Ireland’s top entrepreneurs – among them Galwegians Lorraine Heskin from Bearna and John Desmond from Ballinasloe – have returned from Singapore where they recently attended the annual EY Entrepreneur Of The Year CEO Retreat. The delegation included this year’s 24 EY Entrepreneur Of The Year finalists, including Lorraine Heskin, Founder […]