The 'sheer terror' of a big clothes shop!

Coping with sheer terror of being lost in Penneys

Country Living with Francis Farragher It’s kind of strange that the older one gets, the more one seems to slip back into situations of childhood angst. Last week, during one of our colder snaps, I...
The demolition of the Pavilion Ballroom, better known as The Hangar, in Salthill Park in the 1970s. A former RAF Aerodrome in Oranmore, it was purchased by Galway Urban Council in 1924 for £400. Over the subsequent half century a succession of big international acts graced the Hangar stage — Jim Reeves, Chubby Checker, Bill Haley, Johnny Cash, Horslips, Thin Lizzy, Rory Gallagher, etc as well as all the top names from the showband era. The spartan facilities of The Hangar were put in stark perspective with the opening of the adjacent Leisureland in 1974 which soon became the city's prime concert venue for a decade or more.

Galway In Days Gone By

1917 Trans-Atlantic Port Recently there has been much discussion that is public property, and more important conferences that have been conducted in private, upon the question of building a pier to Mutton Island. Mr. Binns, the...
Boys pictured after their Confirmation at Galway Cathedral in 1970, with Bishop of Galway, Dr Michael Browne.

Galway In Days Gone By

1914 Rifles for Craughwell, Galway Upwards of eighty Volunteers of the Craughwell corps marched into Athenry on Tuesday evening to receive a consignment of sixty rifles despatched from headquarters of the National Volunteers in Dublin. The...

Glorious music and singing in Donizetti’s romantic comedy

Glorious music and singing, drama, spectacle and a happy ending are on the menu at the Town Hall Theatre next Tuesday, December 9, when Donizetti’s romantic comedy, The Elixir of Love will be performed. A...
Performer and composer Alma Deutscher. “Melodies that play inside my head,” is how Alma describes what happens when she gets ideas.

Exceptional child prodigy for Galway performance

Lifestyle - Judy Murphy talks to the mother of 11-year-old Alma Deutscher whose full-length opera has got rave reviews Being the parent of a gifted child is both rewarding and challenging, as Janie Steen and...
Local women are being taught how to sew on Singer machines under the shade of a giant tree. These newly acquired machines are operated manually and by foot as there’s no electricity in this remote place.

Farming for survival in one of the world’s poorest countries

Lifestyle -  Judy Murphy travelled to Malawi where she was enchanted by the natural beauty but saddened by the scale of the poverty "We need a fence.” That was the simple message from the group...

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