New oil exploration licences will increase State incomePat Rabbitte says terms for production of energy resources in Irish waters will include annual royaltyWed Jun 18 2014 - 14:31
NUI Galway economist appointed advisor to IMFProf Alan Ahearne is former special advisor to late Fianna Fáil minister Brian LenihanMon Jun 16 2014 - 16:30
Lissadell House in Sligo set to reopen to publicMove ends five years of legal dispute over accessSun Jun 15 2014 - 16:08
Irish designer of the submarine remembered on the BoyneJohn Philip Holland taught as a Christian Brother in Drogheda schoolSat Jun 14 2014 - 01:00
Family Agency chair welcomes mother-and-baby homes inquiryNorah Gibbons says facilities were ‘known about’ and ‘accepted’Fri Jun 13 2014 - 10:04
An Emergency wedding: war, rations and a 70-year loveSeven decades of marriage have not dampened the spark between Eileen Geoghegan and retired Army officer Ned Cusack, who got married just after the D-Day landings in 1944Fri Jun 13 2014 - 01:00
Surviving a mother-and-baby homeHow a Dublin woman fought the pressure to sign adoption papers, and kept her childThu Jun 12 2014 - 01:00
Galway commits to European capital of culture bidTitle will be awarded to Irish and Croatian cities in 2020Wed Jun 11 2014 - 01:00
Naval Service ship names row may reopenNo decision yet on naming third new Naval patrol ship after another literary figureMon Jun 09 2014 - 20:50
Government to purchase third new Naval Service shipTaoiseach says new vessel will cost €54 million and be identical to the recently delivered LE Samuel BeckettMon Jun 09 2014 - 18:49
Archbishop of Tuam warns of ‘bad shepherds’Dr Michael Neary makes no direct comment on Tuam home at ordination of priestMon Jun 09 2014 - 01:00
Culture Shock: Galway’s struggling arts groups face toughest cuts yetA Labour Party councillor says he abstained from voting when the figures came before full council because he wasn’t happy with ‘the flippant way the arts grants were being treated’Sat Jun 07 2014 - 01:00
Connacht Tribune group to shed staff as part of restructuring plan12 redundancies sought at Connacht Tribune, City Tribune and Connacht SentinelFri Jun 06 2014 - 10:50
HSE defends sending helicopters to Aran Islands to rescue touristAran island co-op criticises waste of resourcesFri Jun 06 2014 - 01:00
Scientists call for more research into conduits and caverns under Galway BayNetwork of sub-sea aquifers may funnel freshwater to all three Aran IslandsTue Jun 03 2014 - 01:00
Bord Iascaigh Mhara plans second fish farm off west coastSite earmarked between Inishturk and Inishbofin islandsMon Jun 02 2014 - 01:00
Tall ships with 100 Irish trainees sail up the LiffeySail Training Ireland project aims to keep spirit of ‘Asgard II’ aliveSat May 31 2014 - 01:00
Last European Parliament seat taken by Marian HarkinMidlands North-West count lasted almost five daysThu May 29 2014 - 22:14
Marian Harkin retains MEP seat after five-day election countCounting in Midlands North-West constituency concludes after FF’s Gallagher concedesThu May 29 2014 - 07:15
Midlands-North West: seat hangs in balance as votes recheckedSupporters of Marian Harkin and Pat the Cope Gallagher scrutinse bundlesWed May 28 2014 - 22:34
An Irishwoman’s Diary on women with altitudeOn the uplands with climbing womenTue May 27 2014 - 10:55
Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan calls for change of direction on EuropeNewly elected MEP says it may be time to reconsider membership of European UnionTue May 27 2014 - 01:00
Scientist saddles up to see the best of Ireland’s wildlifeLiam Lysaght, the head of the National Biodiversity Data Centre, plans to cycle the island, visiting 60 protected sitesSat May 24 2014 - 01:00
Arts groups fear loss of Loughrea’s Cinema ParadisoArts organisations would like to use the former picture house but council seeks proposals from those with substantial fundsSat May 24 2014 - 01:00
Neanderthal experts gather in Galway to pay tribute to their scientific godfatherTerm ‘homo neanderthalensis’ first coined on university campus 150 years agoSat May 24 2014 - 01:00
Inis Oírr residents vote early with turnout expected to be 50%Dangerous pier and threat to Aran air service the main issues on islandFri May 23 2014 - 01:13
Islands vote just one day ahead in European and local electionsEuropean law rather than State policy change has influenced dateThu May 22 2014 - 01:00
Veteran newspaper editor Jim McGuire diesWest of Ireland journalist edited four regional newspapers and served on RTÉ AuthorityTue May 20 2014 - 20:37
Coast Guard helicopter crew receives international awardSligo crew hovered for 20 minutes at cliff face while rescuing climber in DonegalMon May 19 2014 - 15:49
Former boss questions terms of sale of State seaweed firmTony Barrett believes buyer seeking exclusive access to the west coast’s valuable seaweed cropMon May 19 2014 - 10:40
Mayo profile: ‘People are in bad form, with no spare cash . . . and not saying a lot to us, which is dangerous’SF’s Rose Conway-Walsh expected to poll very well in west Mayo, while mini ‘civil war’ in Westport splitting Fine Gael voteFri May 16 2014 - 13:58
Sale of State seaweed company to Canadian buyer questionedEamon O’Cuiv urges Údarás na Gaeltachta to disclose price received for ArramaraTue May 13 2014 - 16:44
Galway county profile: Independents running in large numbersDaily survival and disillusionment with established parties are dominant issuesTue May 13 2014 - 01:00
Whistleblower feels vindicated after 'six years fighting system'Kenny promises ‘root and branch’ review after Guerin report on misconduct claimsSat May 10 2014 - 11:51
Biomarine plant to bring jobs to DonegalState aid and planning approval will be required for the €35 million projectSat May 10 2014 - 01:18
Taoiseach promises root and branch analysis of justice processPractice rather than policy of justice at issue, says KennyFri May 09 2014 - 19:21
Concern raised for sucidal asylum seekers in direct provision hostelsIrish Refugee Council calls on Fitzgerald to urgently meet parents of three childrenFri May 09 2014 - 15:02
Galway city profile: There could be a dogfight in each of three wardsConstituency profile: Boundary revisions have seen the east ward lose a chunkto the central wardFri May 09 2014 - 06:53
National organ donor commemorative garden opened in GalwayProject initiated by couple who lost their only sonWed May 07 2014 - 10:53
US owner of ‘Lusitania’ calls for more flexibility from StateAnniversary of ship’s 1915 sinking off Kinsale marks need for recoveryWed May 07 2014 - 09:51
Cork maritime training college to sign deal with Chevron ShippingNational Maritime College of Ireland and GAC will train 450 Chevron officersTue May 06 2014 - 12:01
Invasive species which can smother marine life spreading in south Galway BayJapanese sea squirt almost impossible to eradicateTue May 06 2014 - 09:51
Decision to name Navy patrol ships after writers defendedDirector Neil Jordan critical of move to give ‘weaponised naval systems’ authors’ namesMon May 05 2014 - 12:52
Community group claims An Post deferring post office closures until after local and European electionsNorth Galway group hopes public meeting will compel An Post to clarify positionMon May 05 2014 - 01:00
Böll’s artist son revisits sites where Achill’s unbaptised buriedSense of deep loss on Mayo island about storm damage to cillín near DugortSat May 03 2014 - 01:00
No plans to cut history at school, says Ruarí QuinnQuinn says his only ‘agenda’ is to allow students freedom of choiceFri May 02 2014 - 01:00
Pluralism should not give rise to ‘elitism’, Archbishop Martin saysCatholic ethos will benefit from provision of alternatives, Catholic school managers toldThu May 01 2014 - 01:00
Digitised Abbey Theatre archive exhibition due to open at NUI GalwayProject billed as largest of its type in the worldThu May 01 2014 - 01:00
Shell to Sea goes to UN over policing of gas disputeEnvironmental group makes the submission after Alan Shatter declines to hold independent inquiryWed Apr 30 2014 - 16:28
