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Progress at last on Oughterard footbridge

Consultants have been appointed to draw up plans for a new pedestrian footbridge over the Owneriff River in Oughterar...

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...

Galway’s UN peacekeepers get ready for Christmas

UN Peacekeepers are used to the distance it takes them from home, but that doesn’t make Christmas any easier – and ye...

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Galway mourns passing of a modest Olympian

The world of Irish athletics – but his home parish of Oughterard in particular – has lost an icon this week, following the death of Olympic maratho...

State support needed to prevent people with disabilities slipping into poverty

The Government should be focused on equity of access to transport, education and jobs for people with disabilities. That’s according to a young ...

New footbridge will solve safety issue in Oughterard

Work on designing a pedestrian bridge across the Owenriff River in Oughterard is finally expected to start this autumn – after years of lobbying fo...

Huge crowds turn out for parades across city and county

Tens of thousands attended St Patrick’s Day Parades across the county last weekend, banishing from memory the Covid concerns that blighted last yea...

Fundraiser aids pioneering treatment for paralysed footballer

A Galway community has come together to support a talented young footballer who suffered a life-changing spinal injury on a foreign holiday last su...

Oughterard secure spoils in top of the table struggle

By Mike Rafferty OUGHTERARD have seldom sampled the action in the higher levels of the local league, but an unbeaten seven match run since the s...


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