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Broadcaster promises to ensure eulogies will be short when it comes to his own funeral

The event itself is hopefully a long way off, but whenever broadcaster Sean O’Rourke finally shuffles off this mortal...

Éowyn could have left us under water

We knew we were gripped in the storm of generation as it happened – but now a research team at the University of Galw...

Councillor deliberates on need for balance between energy needs and local concerns

A Galway councillor has warned intransigent opposition to windfarms given the need for wind energy in the county – bu...

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Minister Cummins visits Galway’s newest housing milestone during Council briefing

The Junior Minister for Local Government and Planning met with Galway County Council officials at Áras an Chontae last week to discuss their strate...

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Cuan Beo wins award for protecting Bay waters

A community-led organisation focusing on protecting and restoring ecological, cultural, and economic connections between the land and sea in Galway...

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Galway reps join Taoiseach at Dublin Castle for Comhairle na nÓg National Showcase

Representatives from Galway city and county joined over 400 of their peers – all aged between twelve and seventeen – to offer Taoiseach Michaél Mar...

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Gaeltacht community marks 90th anniversary of exodus from west to east

Words and photos:  Matt Nolan It is now ninety years since that extraordinary day – April 12 1935 – when three specially chartered Comhlacht Bus...

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Historic Celtic Cross unveiled as a Famine Memorial in Mountbellew Cemetery

There was a large attendance at the blessing and unveiling of a historic Celtic Cross as a Famine Memorial in the New Cemetery, Mountbellew, on Eas...

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Host of Galway memories featured in National Museum book on rural life

Memories of her father cycling from Galway to Dublin to a hurling match in the 1940s – or singer Christy Moore listening to Michael O’Hehir on the ...


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Broadcaster promises to ensure eulogies will be short when it comes to his own funeral
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