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Jackie Mons – the last of the timber boat builders

The death took place recently of legendary Oughterard boat-builder Jackie Mons. In the months before his death, he sp...

IRB plans ‘kangaroo court’ for Oughterard

A political conspiracist organisation gaining ground in Galway and styling itself the Irish Republican Brotherhood (I...

IRB on Oughterard recruitment drive

The Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) is actively recruiting members in Oughterard to its conspiracist political org...

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Chef cooks up kindness during cold snap

Social media posts showing empty bread shelves in supermarkets during this latest cold snap prompted a chef in Connemara to offer free homemade bre...

School’s first students get back together for night of memories 60 years on

They were the Class of 1964, history makers in their own way even if that was lost on them at the time; the first students through the front door o...

Galway resident celebrates her 109th birthday in style!

Nobody can say that they’ve seen it all, but one Oughterard resident has come closer than most as she marks her 109th birthday. Phyllis Furness ...

Community rallies to support one of their own

When Oughterard landscape gardener Malachy Ruane died ten months after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, his wife and three kids felt their ...

Progress at last on Oughterard footbridge

Consultants have been appointed to draw up plans for a new pedestrian footbridge over the Owneriff River in Oughterard – two decades after it was i...

Covid proves the catalyst for ceramicist

The pandemic provided the spur that led ceramicist Sinead O’Toole to start her own business. She’d been working as a mentor for Canadian e-comme...


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