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Amputee Paralympian pulls 120-tonne ferry to sixth world record
Paralympian and amputee Shane Mc Loughlin set a sixth world record on Saturday morning, completing a five-metre pull of the 120-tonne Aran Island Ferries vessel, Saoirse na Farraige, at Ros a Mhíl Harbour in Connemara.
The Queen of Bowling Green
It was one of those Galway nights that you would see frozen forever on an arts festival poster, the moon with a crook sharp enough for someone to sit in and drop a fishing line down to the bay below. Flares erupted over near the harbour. Fireworks launched from the roof of the fancy hotel.
Club pays tribute to 'best pound-for-pound hurler in Ireland'
Jimmy Duggan who passed away this week at the age of 93, was once described as “the best pound-for-pound hurler in Ireland.”
The Staves - sisters in harmony, sisters in song
"THE HUMAN voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, the most moving...even the greatest virtuoso will never be able to give you even a fraction of the emotion a beautiful voice can...That is our share of the divine.”
The Staves reschedule Galway show to 2022
THE STAVES, the English folk-pop sister trio, known for their exquisite vocal harmonies, have rescheduled their Galway show until next year.
The Staves - Good Woman (Warner)
"THE HUMAN voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, the most moving...even the greatest virtuoso will never be able to give you even a fraction of the emotion a beautiful voice can...That is our share of the divine.”
Album review: The Staves
"THE HUMAN voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, the most moving...even the greatest virtuoso will never be able to give you even a fraction of the emotion a beautiful voice can...That is our share of the divine.”
Giro de Gortmore to raise funds for Mayo Roscommon Hospice
Two men who are isolating in Tourmakeady at present, will undertake a 200km cycle on Saturday, May 2, for Mayo Roscommon Hospice Foundation.
Two funerals at Menlo Castle cemetery
I have mentioned recently Sir William Wilde’s energetic guide to Lough Corrib - Its shores and Islands (published 1867), and his excitement as he and his family steamed across Ireland from Dublin, to begin their long summer holiday at their holiday home, Moytura Lodge, Cong, at the very north of the lake. From steam train to the Eglinton steamer, which left Galway every day to service the villages on the lakeshore, including Cong, the Wildes steamed passed the ancient home of the Blakes at Menlough (Menlo)* located just before the river enters the great lake.
