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Electronic devices are gathering dust in Galway, reveals WEEE survey
Seventy per cent of electronic devices are not being recycled or returned to the circular economy across Galway, new data reveals.
Farewell to Phyllis — after 109 years of a life less ordinary
The Galway resident who was believed to be the oldest person in Ireland has died this week just 81 days after celebrating her 109th birthday.
Yeats’ Tower summer artists selected
Two artists have been selected for the 2024 Thoor Ballylee artists in residence programme.
Galway Dominicans, a brief history
The Dominican Order was formally approved by Pope Honorius III in 1216, “to witness to the truth of the Christian Faith and to proclaim it at home and abroad”. St Dominic died in 1216, and in 1224 the Dominicans first came to Ireland. They came to Connacht, to Athenry, in 1241, and they finally arrived in Galway in 1488.
University of Galway announce 2023 Alumni Award winners
University of Galway has announced the winners of the 2023 Alumni Awards to be presented at a gala banquet on Friday June 16, 2023. The Alumni Awards recognise individual excellence and achievements among the University’s 128,000 alumni worldwide. These awardees are leaders who have demonstrated impact and excellence in their fields on a local, national, and international level.
Disappointment for depleted Buccaneers as Terenure claim Bateman Cup final silverware
TERENURE COLLEGE 71
Through the glass darkly
I have always been fascinated by maps, especially old maps. One of the most famous is the Tube map - better known as the London Underground map - a schematic transport map of the lines, stations and services of the London Underground, known colloquially as "the Tube", hence the map's name.
‘A city numbed speechless’ as teens are laid to rest after Menlo tragedy
The tragic deaths of three teenagers in an accident at Menlo Pier last weekend has left “a city numbed speechless,” the priest celebrating the first of the funeral Masses said yesterday (Wednesday), when hundreds of mourners gathered to bid farewell to 16-year-old John Keenan Sammon.
Remembering ‘Williameen’ McDonagh
We have two photographs today of groups from Our Lady's Boys' Club. Firstly, a club rugby team that made history by winning the Connacht Junior League for the first time in 1959, and secondly, some club members taken on the annual camp in Lough Cutra Castle, c1956.
‘A pale granite dream, afloat on its own reflection’
Mitchell Henry’s final days in Kylemore were sad ones. His adored wife Margaret had died at 45 years-of-age, and rested in a simple brick mausoleum in the grounds of his palatial Kylemore Castle. His political life, into which he put a great deal of personal effort, advocating on behalf of all Irish tenants the rights for them to own their own land, was out manoeuvred by Charles Stewart Parnell and the Land League. Henry described the Land League methods as ‘dishonest, demoralising and unchristian’. He probably was not surprised to lose his Galway seat in the general election of 1885. He blamed ‘Parnalite intimidation’.