Transition Year students from Dunmore Community School Leanne Coyne and Roseanne Delaney hold the Volvo Race trophy, with Captain Brian Sheridan, Galway Harbour Master, Mary Jo Parker, Head of Volunteering with Volvo Ocean Race, school principal Gay McManus and their classmates. Ocean Race has inland impact — Page 6. Photo: Ray Ryan
By JACQUELINE HOGGE PROTESTERS from Tuam and the surrounding area are due to join a demonstration at government buildings in Dublin on Wednesday (today) to lobby for changes to proposed legislation governing the regulation of septic tanks. An estimated 300 people attended a public meeting in the town on Friday where they vented their opposition [...]
A BOOK of evidence was presented to a defendant charged with the murder of a non-national in Glenamaddy last July. Det Sergeant Michael O’Driscoll presented the book of evidence on Tuesday at Tuam Court. *****You need to be logged in to see this part of the post. Login using the box in the sidebar. Not [...]
By SIOBHÁN HOLLIMAN THE rising cost of water for businesses and farmers in Co Galway is leading to many of them drilling their own private wells on their property. Commercial water charges in the county have jumped by seven and a half per cent this year, an increase costing heavy water users thousands of euro. [...]
By TONY GALVIN IT was a case of do as we say, not as we do, when members of Galway Co Council voted down a proposal to ban their own election posters in the county for good. The selfless proposal to ban election posters as part of the council’s drive against litter was put forward [...]
THE largest recorded fine ever handed down at Tuam Court was imposed this week when Judge Geoffrey Browne fined a man €53,500 after convicting him on 39 charges of failing to file tax returns. The Judge said the defendant had shown complete contempt for the Court by not even bothering to turn up so he [...]
FORMER journalist with The Tuam Herald Eithne Donnellan has been appointed Assistant News Editor with The Irish Times. Eithne, a native of Carnaun, Tuam, began her career in journalism with The Herald and moved to the national newspaper as a reporter in 1999. She was appointed the paper’s Health Correspondent in 2003 and has since [...]
By TONY GALVIN IT has emerged that property owners who are the victims of illegal dumping automatically become legally responsible and liable for the waste, which includes the cost of disposing of any waste that is left on their land. Members of Galway Co Council expressed surprise and shock when they were informed that property [...]
By SIOBHÁN HOLLIMAN THE countdown has begun to the all-out ban on smoking anywhere on the grounds of Galway’s two main public hospitals. From February 22 patients, staff and visitors at Galway University Hospitals will have to leave the hospitals’ grounds entirely if they wish to smoke. *****You need to be logged in to see this [...]
UP TO 2,000 schoolchildren from all over Co Galway arrived in Leisureland, Salthill one Friday recently for a choral workshop in preparation for their performance in the Galway Peace Proms with the internationally acclaimed Cross Border Orchestra of Ireland. The workshop was directed by top national conductor Gearóid Grant and Choreographer James Devine who holds [...]
