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A new €20 million motorway service station at Junction 12 on the M18 near Ennis will be officially opened today (Thursday) by Darragh O’Brien, Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment Energy and Minister for Transport, bringing services to what had been a 100 kilometre stretch of motorway without access to a service station between Limerick and Galway.

'What happened to all those good minor hurling teams over the past few years?' Or more pointedly: 'Why haven’t Galway been able to translate minor success into U-20 and senior?' If I had a euro for every time I’ve been asked those questions, I’d probably be able to sponsor the county board myself. Move over Pat McDonagh.

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More than 210 tractors and 13 trucks took part in the Light Up for Iggy Christmas Tractor Run at Galway Plaza, as families and the farming community came together to honour the memory of Iggy Daly and raise funds for Cholangiocarcinoma Ireland.

More than 210 tractors and 13 trucks took part in the Light Up for Iggy Christmas Tractor Run at Galway Plaza, as families and the farming community came together to honour the memory of Iggy Daly and raise funds for Cholangiocarcinoma Ireland.

The Galway Plaza will host a festive ‘Light up for Iggy’, a Christmas tractor run and family fun day on Sunday, December 28, from 4:00pm to 7:00pm, bringing families, farmers and the wider community together for an excellent cause.

The place-name Shantalla is derived from the Irish ‘Sean Talamh’ meaning old ground, though why Shantalla should be older than the ground around it is a mystery. Maybe a lot of it was never worked and left wild. Sometimes the name was written as Shantallow, and locally it was always known as ‘Shantla’.

This is the time of year when parents are preparing to get their children ready for going back to school, when the kids are feeling sorry for themselves, and their days of carefree freedom in the sunshine are coming to an end.

Retirees gather to reminisce about working in Eglinton Street on Friday May 23, 2025 at 7:30pm in the Menlo Park Hotel.

Pat and Una McDonagh were presented with a piece of crystal by Uachtarán Cumann Luthchleas Gael, Jarlath Burns, in Pearse Stadium on Saturday evening in recognition of the couple’s 35 years sponsoring Galway GAA. In 1990, Pat McDonagh, together with his wife Una, began sponsoring Galway GAA, marking the start of one of the longest relationships in modern sponsorships.