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The 2026 Global Hunger Index warns that progress against hunger has gone into reverse. After almost four decades working alongside vulnerable communities, Ronan Scully of Self Help Africa reflects on the families and children behind the statistics and why the world must act.

For generations, the Irish rental market was not built by funds. It was built by ordinary people: the teacher who kept the first house after moving, the farmer who bought a flat in town, the couple whose one rental property was their pension.

Former Galway East TD Joe Callanan has died, with tributes being paid to a man remembered as “one of life’s great gentlemen” and a dedicated public servant whose roots and loyalties remained firmly anchored in his native community.

To some, it might seem almost bordering on blasphemy to suggest that a business, just like Jesus, was born in a stable and went on to conquer the world. Yet that is precisely the remarkable story of John F. Concannon and JFC Group — a global manufacturing success that had its unlikely beginnings in a humble cow shed on a farm in Kilconly, North Galway.

Last week we showed you some very well researched watercolours of Galway painted in the late 1830s by William Evans of Eton. He had made many careful studies of the types and colours of the clothing worn by native Galwegians, especially the women; of the different types of baskets they wove; the traditional everyday tools and equipment they used such as sleáns, milk churns, cooking pots and spinning wheels; the types of traditional boats they sailed.

It’s Christmas in Sligo, and the Cosgroves have gathered in the good room, full of bad moods and holiday décor.

Bord Bia, in partnership with the HSE’s National Cancer Control Programme (NCCP) and Healthy Ireland, has launched a collaborative campaign to raise awareness among Irish farmers of the importance of protecting their skin from the sun.

Seán Canney TD, Minister of State for International and Road Transport, Logistics, Rail and Ports and Leader in Cabinet of the Independent Ministers, has welcomed funding of more than €28,000 for farm safety and wellbeing initiatives at Mountbellew Agricultural College under a new €1.18 million national funding package.

Agri Aware is pleased to announce that Galway-based company EASYFIX has committed to coming on board as a patron.

A man who was arrested for driving while disqualified and had his car seized by a Garda was again caught hours later by the same Garda driving a different vehicle and she had to repeat the whole process.