A kind May but is our luck about to change
Country Living with Francis Farragher
IT does only seem like yesterday when we were dusting ourselves down after the Christmas season and then preparing for the St. Patrick’s Day Parade but almost in a flash...
Rocky from Rosmuc
Lifestyle - The extraordinary life of Connemara boxer Seán Mannion is the subject of a poignant new documentary film. Judy Murphy talks to the people behind it.
A bitter-sweet story” is how film director Michael...
Galway In Days Gone By
1917
Up the rebels
Capt. S. Gwynn, M.P. attended Castlegar, alone, on Sunday morning for the purposes of addressing the people regarding the present political situation. He was struck by a bad egg before he delivered...
Galway In Days Gone By
1917
‘War bread’ unpopular
At Galway Petty Sessions, Mr. Patk. Lydon, baker, Mary-street, was charged under an Order of the Food Controller for selling newly-baked bread under the Defence of the Realm Regulations which state: “that...
The long and very short journey from ‘57 to now
Country Living with Francis Farragher
THERE was a fair confluence of emotions last week when the year 1957 took on its own special significance for me, but in fairness most of them were good ones,...
Man who made Galway ‘sexy’
Lifestyle - Founder of Galway Arts Festival Ollie Jennings tells Judy Murphy how the germ of an idea grew into such a headline event
If someone in Garbally College, where I went to secondary school,...