Services

Country Living

Long gone are the days of penance and sacrifice

Country Living with Francis Farragher THE year 2022 seems to be freewheeling along at an alarmingly fast rate with...

Changing times in that trawl for a perfect mate

Country Living with Francis Farragher There’s an old country saying of: “When God made them, he matched them,” and...

A look back at the troubled life and times of Jim Crow

Country Living with Francis Farragher It’s funny at times how one little suggestion or mention of something unusua...

  • Country Living LATEST

Country Living

Recalling strange times that ‘shook up’ our lives

Country Living with Francis Farragher THE other day while doing another of those clear-outs of old documents that are well past their sell-by-da...

Country Living

Good to be young again even for only two hours

Country Living with Francis Farragher OKAY, so I must admit to being one of the approximately 400,000 ‘Paddies’ who made the trek or pilgrimage ...

Country Living

No choice in the matter as we all continue to dream on

Country Living with Francis Farragher I suppose that it really is something that shouldn’t bother me, but of late, I’ve made a very conscious de...

Country Living

We live in a nice place but is the golden goose being killed?

Country Living with Francis Farragher We’re all familiar with the moral of the ‘killing the goose that lays the golden egg’ yarn and I’ve met a ...

Country Living

Trying to find the time to slow down that clock

Country Living with Francis Farragher AS one gets older the realisation dawns that time – and not material wealth – is our greatest asset but bo...

Country Living

It nearly always comes down ‘to splitting the difference’

Country Living with Francis Farragher THERE used to be a great habit at fair days one time of throwing a spit on the palm of your hand and sayin...


SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER

Free Newsletter delivered twice weekly into your Inbox containing all the highlights from Galway from the pages of the Connacht Tribune and Galway City Tribune.

Long gone are the days of penance and sacrifice
Go Up