Lorraine Lally of Helplink’s Conflict Resolution Centre: “It has been very positive, especially when it comes to children, where court is not the place,” she says. Photo: Joe O'Shaughnessy.

Taking the conflict out of marriage break-ups

Lifestyle - Dearbhla Geraghty hears how Helplink’s Conflict Resolution Centre eases some of the pain Mediation is becoming a necessary alternative to the courts for couples who need immediate help in dealing with the practicalities...
Diarmuid de Faoite, actor, Anne Ó Máille, Chairperson, Music for Galway and Finghin Collins, Musical Director, Music for Galway, in Tí Neachtain, at the launch of the Music for Galway Midwinter Festival "Captive – Music from the Abyss". Photo: Iain McDonald.

How music brought joy in humanity’s darkest days

Lifestyle - Judy Murphy hears about a Galway festival that will put the focus on music from captivity Watching the news these days isn’t exactly good for the soul, given the endless accounts of atrocities...
Professor Eamon O'Shea

Golden years for ageing in Ireland of the 21st Century

Lifestyle -  Judy Murphy meets Eamon O’Shea, an expert on ageing who says older people should be kept to the forefront of society He’s best known as the man who managed the Tipperary Senior hurling...
Galway has a long tradition in film dating back to Robert Flaherty’s 1934 film Man of Aran and John Ford's The Quiet Man in 1951, a scene from which is featured above with stars Maureen O'Hara and John Wayne.

Putting Galway in the picture

Lifestyle -  Judy Murphy meets the people who helped Galway to achieve its UNESCO City of Film status It’s just a year since Galway was designated a UNESCO City of Film, joining a small group...
Charlene Kelly (Sophie) and Kieran Coppinger (Larry), the two central characters in 'Sanctuary'.

Taboo topic is focus of pioneering Galway film

Lifestyle -  Judy Murphy meets some of the cast and crew of Sanctuary which looks at disabled people’s sexuality I have Down Syndrome and I can be a bit slow at times,” says Kieran Coppinger...
The bleakness and beauty of Connemara combined.

Connemara’s ‘wild west’ through lens of camera

Lifestyle - Judy Murphy talks to Mark Joyce who has captured hidden gems in photography book When Mark Joyce looks out the back door of his Recess home, there is wilderness as far as the...

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