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Galway milliners fly high in Best Dressed competition at Ballybrit
Galway Bay fm newsroom – Two Galway milliners have featured among the three winners of the best dressed competition at Ladies Day at the Galway Races in Ballybrit.
Suzie Mahony from Loughrea and Edel Ramberg from College Road in the city designed two of the winning creations.
A Clare-native, living in Cork, was named as the Best Dressed Lady at Ladies Day at the Galway Races.
Clare-native, Helen Murphy, who lives and teaches in Cork was announced as the Best Dressed Lady at the Anthony Ryan tent at Ballybrit in the past hour.
She wore a mint green midi-skirt and white top from Coast, accessorised with an Aisling Maher pearl necklace.
Her white disc hat is from hathire in Cork embellished with a Dunnes stores necklace.
After the 7th race today at 5.35 Helen Murphy will be presented with her prizes of a one-carat diamond pendant and matching diamond earrings valued at 8 and a half thousand euro.
She also receives a shopping spree worth 15 hundred euro at Anthony Ryans and one thousand euro in cash.
Also included in the prize bundle is a Lancome gift hamper worth 500 euro and a corporate hospitality package for the Galway Races October festival.
Meanwhile, the winner of the Best Hat competition is Paula Clancy from Inverin who wore a black beret creation by city milliner, Edel Ramberg.
The Chef Manager, who works at Cisco in Oranmore, wore a black beret, with goosefeathers imported from Italy designed in a floating fan.
She receives a 15 hundred euro Anthony Ryans voucher for her effort today.
The ‘Wear Irish’ competition winner is Emer Nash from Limerick wearing a Make & Tailor Dublin dress with a hat by Suzie Mahony from Loughrea.
The satin disc hat with sinamay twist complemented her Kate Middleton-inspired cream lace dress.
She wore gloves from Fabfillies.ie and Absolut jewellery and her grandmother’s handbag.
She will walk away with a 500 euro voucher for Anthony Ryans.
The death has occurred of the former Bishop of Galway, Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora Martin Drennan, six years after he announced his retirement on health grounds. He was aged 78.
The Galway Diocesan Office confirmed the death this (Saturday) afternoon of the Bishop and Apostolic Administrator Emeritus, who oversaw the Diocese for eleven years.
Born on January 2, 1944 in Piltown, County Kilkenny, he studied for the priesthood at Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth, from where he was ordained to the priesthood in 1968. His brother Michael is also a priest.
Following his ordination, he continued his studies in Rome where he was awarded a Licentiate in both sacred theology and sacred scripture. He returned to Rome in 1980 to become spiritual director at the Pontifical Irish College for the next five years.
He became a lecturer in sacred scripture at Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth, where he continued to teach until his appointment as Auxiliary Bishop of Dublin in 1997 with responsibility for East Wicklow and South Dublin.
Following the retirement of Bishop James McLoughlin, Bishop Drennan was appointed Bishop of Galway and Kilmacduagh and Apostolic Administrator of Kilfenora and he was installed on July 3, 2005 in Galway Cathedral.
Outgoing Cllr Terry O’Flaherty (Ind) is on course to retain her City Council seat – and top the poll in City East.
With 33% of the boxes tallied, Cllr O’Flaherty is polling strongly, particularly in Renmore.
Michael John Crowe is ahead of his running mate Alan Cheevers for the Fianna Fáil vote, according to the early figures, although that could change when Doughiska and Roscam boxes are opened.
The Green Party’s Claire Hillery is on about 7%, with Fine Gael on 10% and Sinn Fein on 5%.
The opening of boxes for the local elections began at 9am this morning in Leisureland when the tallymen (and women) kicked into gear.
As regards the Galway County Council elections, the smaller areas are being opened first which means that the four-seater Connemara North boxes will be first in the pecking order.
It will be followed by Gort-Kinvara (5 seats), Connemara South (5 seats), Athenry-Oranmore (7 seats), Ballinasloe (6 seats), Loughrea (5 seats) and finally Tuam (7 seats).
The boxes in these areas will be opened and tallied in that particular order before being transferred to the Galway Lawn Tennis Club on Threadneedle Road where the counting will commence around mid-morning.
That is when the fun will really begin – although the tallies should give a good indication as to where most of the seats are destined.
As regards the city, the Galway City East boxes were opened first, followed by Galway City Central and finally Galway City West. These votes will be transferred to the Westside Centre by around 11am for counting.
There are 39 seats on Galway County Council to be filled with 18 on Galway City Council. The City Council count is expected to conclude on Saturday night but the County Council count – with seven electoral areas to be filled – could well go into Monday.
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