Galway

‘I told a story about a sex toy at my mother’s funeral. The priest was mortified, but Mum would have loved it’

Comedian Aoife Dunne was shattered by grief after her mother’s death, but now she’s finding giggles in the darkness

Piers Morgan: ‘My DNA is predominantly Irish whether Ireland wants that or not’

Broadcaster on his famous friends, future of media, ‘pathetic’ Kneecap and why his Offaly roots don’t make him a Biffo

An Irish industrial folly spawns a new generation of cutting-edge creativity

Galway International Arts Festival 2025: Interface’s This Too Will Pass, at the Carrolls salmon hatchery, and Funeral for Ashes, by Conor Maloney and John Conneely

Donegal crash: Mother and daughter who died named locally

Ella McLaughlin (6) and her mother Natalie died from injuries sustained in crash near Carndonagh on Wednesday

GP black spots: Parts of Clare, Mayo among areas ‘at risk’ of losing doctor

Report identifies 132 GPs ‘at risk of retirement with no viable replacement’, which would represent tens of thousands of patients

A Cork woman in the circus: ‘In transition year, I wrote to a circus dance company asking if I could do an internship’

Gracie Marshall quit school to train to be a performer. Now Sabotage, in which she stars, is on its way to Galway International Arts Festival

Restaurants in Ireland where you can save money by bringing your own bottle

Eating out is an expensive pursuit these days so it’s worth seeking value when you can

Kinvara residents seek to bring challenge against housing of asylum seekers at hotel

Use of hotel as accommodation centre since 2019 has resulted in losses of up to €13.3m to the local area, residents claim

Ireland’s niche tour guides: Holidays for foodies, newlyweds and baby-boomers

From elopements to college reunions, a growing number of firms cater for smaller groups in search of particular experiences

Galway hotel fire ‘pulled our community together to help other newcomers’, says professor

Cancer specialist recalls 2023 incident as he launches foundation to help refugees and asylum seekers access education

Ireland needs to ditch empty promises and economic fairy tales and start confronting reality

Official documents seem to exist in some kind of parallel universe, with no expectation that targets can be met

Benedictine monastery at Kylemore Abbey voted Ireland’s favourite building at RIAI awards

Axo Architects’ ‘context-sensitive design’ scoops first prize while Dún Laoghaire Baths comes in fourth

Irish pubs with a view: 14 of the best seaside bars for a sunny day

Fourteen go-to spots for the finest outdoor pints - nothing beats old-school pubs perched in stunning coastal areas

Serve: My Lost Years at the Heart of Ireland’s Opus Dei: ‘Catholicism on cocaine’

Anne Marie Allen’s strikingly angry memoir recalls the years she spent working as an unpaid skivvy for the Catholic Church institution

How Tuam, synonymous with a dark side of Irish history, can finally ‘do the right thing’

Two very different playgrounds exist in Co Galway town

‘I regret spending money on cars. It always feels like a financial black hole’

Me & My Money: Bastien Peyraud, general manager, G Hotel and Spa, Galway

Catherine Corless: ‘I was told more often than not that I was giving Tuam a bad name’

Catherine Corless says the 796 children kept her going during ‘painful’ fight for justice

Bookish breaks: Get inspired with these literary destinations, from Castletownshend to the French Riviera

To celebrate Bloomsday on June 16th, we explore spots that inspired famous writers to create their classics

One in four single people seeking emergency accommodation are from direct provision, say homeless agencies

Meeting of high-level committee advising Government also hears of increase in number of people over 60 falling into homelessness

Coastal homes: ‘Buyers like the idea of slowing down. It’s the combination of green and blue for wellness and lifestyle’

Homes with direct access to the water are the Holy Grail, selling agents say

Naval base for Galway could form part of Ireland’s first maritime security strategy

Tánaiste announces four-week public consultation for strategy due by year end

Healthcare data giant inks deal for offices at Galway’s Bonham Quay

Datavant to create 125 jobs by end of 2027 with new global research and design centre

Catherine Corless ‘so relieved’ excavation of Tuam mother and baby home will finally begin on Monday

The Bon Secours-run institution has admitted it did not treat the bodies of dead children properly

Former death row inmate Sunny Jacobs never let tragedies define her, funeral hears

Anti-death penalty advocate and her 31-year-old carer died last week in a house fire at her isolated Connemara cottage

Galway school offers €2,000 to new pupils to prevent loss of second teacher

Scoil Naomh Pádraig is set to lose three of its seven pupils next September

Man who sold ‘extraordinarily rare’ Seamus Heaney books has stolen property charge dismissed

Alan Ladak (70) said he bought the books, valued at €2,000, for €40 each at bric-a-brac stall in Galway city centre

Storm surges of up to five metres are looming for some of Ireland’s cities

Cork is ‘very, very vulnerable’, but Dublin, Galway, the east coast and areas along the Shannon are also at high risk

Carer who died in Connemara house fire with Sunny Jacobs remembered as ‘free spirit’

Kevin Kelly loved ‘tranquil life of and beauty of Connemara’, funeral hears

The story of Sunny Jacobs was never as straightforward as the media suggested

We should be wary of narratives that present women – especially those accused of crimes – as either the evil witch or Snow White

Event guide: Pulp, Beyond the Pale, Cork Midsummer and other best things to do in Ireland this week

Ireland event guide for the week June 7th–13th, 2025: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way

President Higgins criticises £1.5bn UK arms investment announced by Keir Starmer

Michael D Higgins calls on UN to use ‘exceptional powers’ to ensure aid flows to Gaza

The life and tragic death of Sunny Jacobs: how a US death row survivor ended up in Connemara

A house fire in Co Galway this week claimed the life of the anti-death penalty campaigner who spent five years on death row

Classic Hits owner acquires Galway Bay FM for ‘seven-figure sum’

Outgoing shareholders said there had been ‘several interested parties’ vying for control of radio station

Who was Sunny Jacobs? A remarkable life from Florida’s death row to Connemara

In the News podcast: US national was sentenced to death for the murder of two US policemen in 1976

Let Me Go Mad In My Own Way by Elaine Feeney: An ambitious, thoughtful, nicely layered book

A novel written in transparent, unshowy prose, enabling the narrative to maintain its focus on the protagonist

Death row survivor Sonia ‘Sunny’ Jacobs found ‘tranquility’ in Connemara before death in house fire

Jacobs spent five years on death row in Florida for murder she did not commit

A casual bite: Irish bistros, cafes and wine bars for a laid-back meal

Key ingredients of a popular place to eat? Passion, quality and a twist of originality

Woman who died in Connemara house fire named as former US death row inmate Sunny Jacobs

US citizen, who had conviction overturned after almost 17 years in prison, died along with man in his 30s

What will €475,000 buy in Galway city and Co Kildare?

Two homes, one price: A three-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Galway city or a detached four-bedroom house on an acre outside Athy?

Elaine Feeney on her new novel: ‘I was pushing a sort of Chekhov dinner party in the west of Ireland’

The author of Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way on her ‘first Irish family saga’, why she left teaching, and the politics of the domestic space

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