Galway Bay FM News Archives
Bish basketballers edge home in All-Ireland U-15 showdown
Date Published: 26-May-2011
St. Joseph’s College 44
Douglas Community School 42
ST. Joseph’s College (the Bish) were crowned National champions after defeating Douglas Community School in the All-Ireland U-15 basketball final last Sunday in the University of Limerick.
The Western Regional champions – having earlier defeated St. Aidan’s College (Cork) and St Eunan’s (Letterkenny) in the preliminary round – had advanced to the final despite a challenging and close semi-final against Colaiste Eanna (Dublin).
The Bish started the final with three quick baskets by Ciaran Conlon, Ciaran Barbour and Cathal Reilly. The sharp shooting skill of Ronan McKeown forced the Douglas coach to take a timeout to contain the threats from both inside and outside.
Lurglain McDermott played superb defence with the result that the Bish ended the first quarter leading by six points. The city outfit’s shooting guards Liam Egan, Mark Rohan and Peter O’Connor scored impressive baskets at the start of the second quarter and with Cathal Reilly dominating the boards, the Bish looked like strong contenders for the title as they led comfortably by 12 points at half time.
Douglas, however, started the third quarter showing they had no intention of surrendering their National title and Jack O’Mahoney and guard Liam Harris combined to contribute 14 points throughout the quarter. This brought the Cork school back into contention despite five vital points from Padraig Doran and Liam Egan.
Neither team had lost a game all year so the final quarter was understandably extremely tense and the large crowd added to this atmosphere. The Bish managed throughout the final quarter to maintain a slender lead with superb post moves from captains Peter Cooke and Padraig Doran and solid outside shooting from Peter O’Connor and Liam Egan.
Mark Rohan controlled the point exceptionally well and his decision making was crucial in the final minutes. Douglas managed to equalise with 11 seconds on the clock but, in the end, the Bish managed to secure a memorable victory when Padraig Doran, playing a captain’s role, managed to grab a big rebound and fired the ball nto the basket.
Bish coach Brendan Doheny said: “This team possesses a self confidence and an inner belief that I knew would carry them over the line. It really shows that hard work and dedication does pay dividends and clearly stands to you on court. We are so proud of these boys.
Date Published: 07-May-2013
Tuam has secured it’s second import of hay from the UK this afternoon in a bid to address the ongoing fodder crisis in the west.
A load of between 40 and 50 bales arrived at the Connacht Gold store in Airglooney for distribution throughout the county.
It follows a similar load last Thursday to the Tuam outlet.
The co-op also took a load of imported hay to the mart in Maam Cross over the weekend, however most of the bales had already been pre-assigned to farmers.
Further loads of hay are expected to arrive across the west and north west tonight and tomorrow morning.
Date Published: 09-May-2013
281 offers of social housing were made by the city and county councils last year.
Figures provided by the local authorities show that 46 of these were refused.
Galway city council made 193 such offers in 2012 with 41 of these refused.
The majority didn’t like the area they were offered or disliked the property itself.
Galway county council made 88 offers of social housing last year with 83 of these accepted.
Reasons given for refusing five properties focused on the location or that the property itself did not meet their needs.
Date Published: 13-May-2013
Galway Senator Trevor O’ Clochartaigh has called on the government to provide more support for victims of domestic violence.
Figures provided to the Sinn Fein Senator show that domestic violence support group COPE accompanied over 80 women to court in Galway last year, but a further 214 women were unable to avail of such assistance.
Senator O Clochartaigh told Galway Bay fm news that more needs to be done to support victims of domestic violence.
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