The English poet, Alfred Austin, put it succinctly when he said: ‘Show me your garden, and I shall tell you what you are.’ The Galway Tidy...
1915 Dangerous visitors The pickpockets, on the whole, had a poor time. The English “crooks” have been so well watched that, for the present, at any...
For those of us who have not managed to get away this summer, there will be a lot of panic buying of holidays after the atrocious...
The concrete floor and walls of Athenry Mart (or m Art)have been scrubbed clean after the previous day’s cattle sale. There isn’t a smidgen of cow...
Days Gone By – Stories from our archives 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago 1965 – Females needed to ‘decorate the mahogany’ Dear Sir, It...
English comedian Bill Bailey has tackled the once Catholic preserve of Limbo, albeit in a secular way, for his latest show, which comes to Galway’s Black...
In recent weeks, I have been looking at plants as they come into flower in my garden. The latest to show its delightful spikes in blue...
There’s nothing new about priests coming to Galway Cathedral – unless they happen to be an internationally acclaimed trio of clerics who have sold over three...
