From this week’s Galway City Tribune – The wait for accessible, specialised toilet facilities at Ladies Beach in Salthill goes on – three years after they were ‘prioritised’ by city councillors. Galway City Council has confirmed to the Tribune this week that the ‘Changing Places’ facility at Ladies Beach is still not open. Construction of […]
From this week’s Galway City Tribune – A well-known family in the Galway restaurant trade have swapped chef whites for hospital gowns after the matriarch donated a kidney to her son. Jenny and Andrew Ishmael, synonymous with Scotty’s Diner in Cúirt na Coiribe on the Headford Road in Terryland, are recovering in Beaumont Hospital after […]
A collection of 40 original paintings and graphics by renowned German artist Gertrude Degenhardt, will open at The Kenny Gallery in the city’s Liosbán Retail Park on Saturday, February 11th at 3pm. The show, Flying Melodies, features new and retrospective works and is described by the gallery as something of a Greatest Hits, featuring many […]
I must say something about my mother. She was the dearest and sweetest person I have known, as I suppose the humblest and poorest mother would and should be. Instances of the pain and trouble she took to bring up her children are too numerous to mention here. Not only would she supervise the preparation […]
Squadron Leader Anil Sehgal My father was a post graduate in botany, from the prestigious Banaras Hindu University, when even matriculation was a cherished qualification. Those were the times Jammu would boast of only a handful of graduates. Generally speaking, I would describe him as a voracious reader and a quiet person. On most of the festivals he would maintain his sobriety. But, on the festival of Lohri, he would shed his usual reticence and we would see him come […]