Following on from their Invitational Tournament at the weekend and as the 2024 season unwinds, Maree Oranmore Football Club has accomplished some remarkable achievements, on and off the pitch. From securing league titles to nurturing the youngest talents in the academy, and driving the club’s most ambitious fundraiser to date, the “Win a Home in Oranmore” competition, Maree Oranmore FC has embodied the essence of teamwork, passion, and inclusivity.
23-year-old Rally driver, Aoife Raftery, has been driving lots of excitement in the sports scene since her Spanish rally debut in November 2023 when she raced home second in the highly competitive Rally4 class. Last weekend (Feb 2 to 4 ), the Galway-native was the only female driver to compete in the Corrib Oil Galway International Rally for the second successive year, motoring the same Peugeot 208 Rally 4 that she used on five rounds of the FIA Junior European Rally Championship in 2023.
In early October 1884 a journalist from The New York Times, whom we only know by his initials HF, left Galway for Cong by steamer, in the company of Mr TP O Connor, MP for Galway, and Mr Healy, MP for Monaghan.