Sports Notes January 27th 2011

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Another glory day for Caltra

By JACKIE CAHILL Caltra St Cuan’s ……………….2-8 St Enda’s, Omagh ……………..0-8 GALWAY champions Caltra and their Tyrone opponents St Enda’s, the Ulster champions, finished level 0-7 apiece in the 2010 Tesco All-Ireland Ladies Football Junior Club Championship final as far back as December 11th but due to bad weather the replay was put back until [...]

Sports Stars of the Year

One team came from 14 points down to win — but another Galway team were 14 points up and lost

VICTORY from the jaws of defeat, and defeat from the jaws of victory — on the same afternoon. In Ballinasloe last Sunday, the county senior hurlers played their first official fixture of the new year, in defence of the Walsh Cup, the annual Leinster early-season tournament. Against Dublin I.T. at Duggan Park, Ballinasloe an experimental [...]

Set for success

SET FOR SUCCESS: Cosa Beoga dancers Colin Kelly, Lauren Hession, Robert Carr and Adam Hession who are all pupils of Annagh National School, show their paces in front of their schoolmates. With their friends in Cosa Beoga they  will make their bid for glory at the weekend on the All Ireland Talent Show glory on [...]

Over 100 jobs for Tuam as firms expand

Exporting companies are key to new jobs

Fianna Fail hit by Noel Treacy retirement

By TOM GILMORE WITH the retirement of Fianna Fail’s Noel Treacy in Galway East, due to medical reasons, the party has a fight on its hands if it hopes to hold on to its two seats in this constituency in next month’s general election. After undergoing surgery last year Deputy Treacy started on medical treatment [...]

Local students hope their doodles will decorate Google

By CAOIMHE GORDON FOR Pauline Osikoya, living happily ever after is only a mouse-click away. The sixth class student from the Mercy Primary Schoolin Tuam has been announced as one of 60 regional finalists chosen in the Doodle4Google competition. She was chosen from hundreds of entries from schools all around Ireland. Another finalist is Julia [...]

“No plans” to scrap rural commuter bus service

Viable with 30 passengers to city

Major road grants for North Galway

By TOM GILMORE IN the latest round of grants announced for Galway by the National Roads Authority (NRA) roads in three areas of North Galway have got major allocations of funding, and the work on the M17 looks set to begin this year.*****You need to be logged in to see this part of the post. [...]