MY reading habits remind me of the old joke about the granny who started walking three miles a day when she was 80. She’s 92 now and no one knows where she is. For most of my formative years I never willingly opened a book, but now I feel naked unless one is near at [...]
By JOSH LEE A COUPLE OF WEEKS ago, as Taoiseach Enda Kenny prepared to jet off to the Far East with a cohort of business types in tow, Galway West Senator Fidelma Healy Eames was hosting the inaugural China – Ireland Relations conference in NUI Galway’s Engineering Building. Gushing with excitement over the growing links between [...]
Fiscal Compact may be illegal Dear Editor, As a Irish public representative and citizen I keep asking myself would it not be absurd if Irish voters were to vote in the May 31 Fiscal Compact Referendum in favour of imposing austerity rules on ourselves in order to get future access to a proposed permanent Eurozone [...]
FOR TOO many people the term “neighbours from hell” is much more than a television series showing 40-foot leylandii hedges overshadowing suburban gardens. There are now websites and support groups from the UK to Australia to advise people how to deal with neighbours who are making their lives a misery. We do not appear to have [...]
THE passing of one of the great engineering achievements of the 20th century, the Lada Riva, which has ceased production after 42 years of inspiring bad jokes, has reopened an old wound for me. It brought back memories of the traumatic end of my own beloved Lada, which received a Viking’s death outside Tuam, where [...]
RECORDS are made to be broken and the marketing bods out there tasked with boosting the profile and coffers of various charities have in recent times decided that attempting to surpass world records is a novel, and it seems successful, way of getting people to part with their hard-earned cash in these testing times. It [...]
IF A FILM producer approached you and asked you to be the subject of a programme called My Secret Past, what secrets would you unfold to the world? Would it be about a time you jumped the big wall and stole apples from the orchard or would you have a more riveting story to tell? [...]
HAPPINESS, I was once told, is transient and fleeting so it is best not to crave such a state constantly. The proponent of such wisdom reckons that if you aim for okay, you will end up delirious when happy makes a surprise appearance. It’s not a bad theory when you think about it and it [...]
Cherry blossoms and battery life: both are fleeting BY THE TIME you read this, they will probably be mere biodegradable litter, blowing around like discarded confetti, or gathered into sad greyish-pink clumps around the roots of the trees that bore them. But today the cherry blossom is in magnificent bloom. The first and the finest I [...]
By Tony Galvin tgalvin@tuamherald.ie ‘CONTINUITY Fianna Fáil” is what the Labour Party’s newly elected chairman Colm Keaveney dubbed some of the more vociferous protesters who made the headlines when they broke through a Garda barrier outside his party’s conference at NUI Galway on Saturday. Like many Labour delegates, he probably watched the protest with some [...]
