1923 Races accommodation The Galway Race Committee has done a good work for the annual meeting and for business in the city by its action in going some distance at least so generally made against our hotels two years ago shall be removed. A number of racing people were actually competing arrangements to run special […]
By Pádraic Ó Ciardha What a difference a year makes. For the second time in 12 months, Limerick got the better of Galway in an All-Ireland semi-final but the manner of the defeats and the feelings they triggered couldn’t be more different. While Henry Shefflin didn’t exactly set the world on fire during his first […]
By JOHN FALLON THERE will be a good sprinkling of Connacht input as Ireland bid to create history by capturing the World Rugby U-20 Championship when they take on France in the final in South Africa on Friday (6pm, Irish time). Four Connacht players are in the squad two from Galway and two from […]
The South Galway Bay Music Festival is back for its second year, with a three-night event for all ages taking place from July 28-30. The festival is being hosted by Ballinderreen GAA Club and headline acts this year include the Tumbling Paddies, Mike Denver, Gerry Guthrie, Derek Ryan, Johnny Brady, Sum Craic, Sinéad Black and […]
By Pádraic Ó Ciardha NOT for the first time, the Galway senior hurlers won’t have been spared as supporters gathered on high stools and at church gates over the weekend to pick through the latest demoralising championship defeat for the county. ‘Same old Galway’ will have been a popular lament during many of the discussions […]