Niamh has the art of fashion all wrapped up
Lifestyle - Judy Murphy meets Niamh Daniels a young Galway fashion designer whose designer silk scarves are in hot demand
Creating fashion that lasts and can be handed down from mother to daughter is the aim...
A world of vagaries and forecasts fraught with risk
Country Living with Francis Farragher
Although many years ago, I ground out some kind of degree from the then UCG with geography in its final year, I’m no meteorologist, and it is a science that...
Galway In Days Gone By
1916
Negligent councillors
There was important business to be transacted by the District Council of Oughterard last Thursday, but there was no meeting for want of a quorum. It may not be out of place to...
Galway In Days Gone By
1916
Woollen mills death
The town was shocked on Monday night to hear that a young girl had been killed at the woollen mills. Galway, not being an industrial centre, is not accustomed to such fatalities,...
Disappearing remotes, lost mobiles and drones
Country Living with Francis Farragher
A COUPLE of weeks back in the space of a few minutes, I had a conversation with a New Zealander, where we exchanged views about climate and weather.
Ok, it wasn’t...
Granny Rita still a hard rocker
Lifestyle - Judy Murphy meets a Galway granny who mixes with the glitterati of music and film and has been honoured with an MBE
Stop me if I’m talking too much,” says Rita Gilligan as...