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Advertiser founder was 'radically optimistic of the possibilities of life,' says President Higgins
I think it must have been in the year 1967, on a visit to O’Gorman’s Printing House which was an extension of the famous O’Gorman Bookshop, that I had a discussion with an urbane man whom I think must have been Ronnie O’Gorman’s uncle. Over the course of that visit, a discussion took place on whether there was room for a second newspaper in Galway.
More playgrounds needed for Galway City, says Clodagh Higgins
An increase in funding is needed to deliver more playgrounds that will benefit communities in Galway City, Fine Gael Councillor and local election candidate Clodagh Higgins has said.
A lifetime in activism
When Sabina Higgins welcomes you into her private office before a long-scheduled interview, immaculately turned out in an azure, roll-neck woollen dress with anti-war and global sustainability badges pinned to her shoulder, you know she means business.
Celebration of poet Rita Ann Higgins at Town Hall
A selection of works by Galway city poet Rita Ann Higgins will be presented at a celebratory reading in the Town Hall Theatre on March 20.
Mayor Higgins to leave office with "no regrets"
City of Galway Mayor, Cllr Clodagh Higgins, in approaching her final days in office, says Galway is an "amazing place that we are truly privileged to call home".
Kevin Higgins — a poet of integrity, honesty and bravery
In 2016 The Stinging Fly magazine described Kevin Higgins as ‘likely Ireland’s most read Irish poet’. Kevin who passed away this week was a passionate and popular poet, a satirist, a fine wordsmith, a romantic with real powers of evocation and a gentle presence too.
Higgins’ Garage
In 1912, WP Higgins, working from his base in Athenry, went to Cork city to meet Henry Ford to ask him for the Ford dealership. It marked the start of a great business partnership between a business legend and Higgins' Garage.
The thrills, pills, and bellyaches of being a Marxist poet
THE PAMPHLET was the chief means by which an 18th century man - particularly one with revolutionary zeal - with things to say got those things off his chest.