BY Tony Galvin AT LAST: an alternative to the mandatory tour of Connemara — whatever the weather — when visitors arrive. The newly launched Lady Gregory and Yeats Heritage Trail takes in many of the sights of South Galway, with the focus on the area’s great literary, artistic and cultural legacy as well as the heritage [...]
By Siobhán Holliman IT’S definitely a girls’ world on one farm outside Dunmore, and males are only allowed on supervised visits. Only the female kids have names: you can’t get too attached to the boys as they won’t be around that long. However Larry Maguire has names for his current family of eleven goats and [...]
JASON Bourke first heard about Best Buddies when he was in St Jarlath’s College in Tuam. He doesn’t remember what sparked his interest but he decided to give it a try and five years later he’s still involved. He really enjoys the time he spends with his buddy match and they take part in a [...]
SOME might argue that their loved one’s cooking could kill them but while a dodgy chicken curry might result in a dicky tummy for a few days, there are perfectly normal, everyday foods that can put people in the Emergency Department or, at worst, put their lives at serious risk. The past decade has seen [...]
By David Burke THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE walk past the Town Hall corner in Tuam every week. How many of them glance at the bronze plaque on the wall? Of those who do, how many know who is the mustachioed man gazing out at them? Few enough, it appears. When I asked a random selection of [...]
THE ROAD most of us start out at the beginning of life is not the same road we finish up on. There are many twists and turns along that road of life, mine being no exception. It was decided by my parents when I was 12 years old and just finishing national school at Windfield, [...]
By Tony Galvin FOR some, history and tradition form an important link with the past and help explain who we are and where we come from. For such people, our heritage is something to treasure, protect and pass on to future generations, as their forefathers bequeathed it to them. Frank Gavin is just such a [...]
By Jacqueline Hogge NONE of us likes to think of how we will spend our final days when we’re hale and hearty, but when a terminal illness turns our world upside down such thoughts can be all-consuming. Galway Hospice has been providing specialist care for those with life-limiting conditions for over 20 years by offering [...]
THERE is hardly a wall in the homes of North Galway that doesn’t bear framed smiling faces captured in time by Corofin’s Patsy Conway. He has attended hundreds of weddings, countless communions, confirmations and christenings and has probably more negatives in his attic than the RTÉ archives. If there’s an event, social or otherwise, happening [...]
By Jacqueline Hogge FOR years it’s been considered the preserve of the rural masses, but the ladies of the Irish Countrywoman’s Association are taking on the towns and cities of the nation in a bid to spread their unique formula of fun and friendship. Two years ago, the association won a new following when a [...]
